View from Dragon. Waypoint 2. Just 20 meters from the IDA. Dragon Endeavour is the welcoming party for Dragon Endurance.
DOCKED. Crew Dragon Endurance has docked with the ISS. Crew-7 has arrived at the ISS.Overview:https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2023/08/nasa-gives-crew-7-the-go-for-launch-to-iss-on-friday/SpaceX livestream:youtube.com/watch?v=bEsyo5…
F9/Crew-7: Docking sequence now complete; commander Jasmin Moghbeli: "I have to keep reminding myself this is not just a dream."
SpaceX Crew-7 Mission Docks to Station’s Harmony ModuleNASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov arrived at the International Space Station as the SpaceX Dragon, named Endurance, docked to the complex at 9:16 a.m. EDT Sunday while the station was 261 statute miles over Queensland, Australia.Following Dragon’s link up to the Harmony module, the astronauts aboard the Dragon and the space station will begin conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening.Crew-7 will join the space station’s Expedition 69 crew of NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen, Woody Hoburg, and Frank Rubio, as well as UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Andrey Fedyaev. For a short time, the number of crew aboard the space station will increase to 11 people until Crew-6 members Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev return to Earth a few days later.NASA Television and the agency’s website are continuing to provide live continuous coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-7 mission.More details about the Crew-7 mission can be found by following the Crew-7 blog, the commercial crew blog, @commercial_crew on Twitter, and commercial crew on Facebook. Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.Get weekly video highlights at: https://roundupreads.jsc.nasa.gov/videoupdate/Get the latest from NASA delivered every week. Subscribe here: www.nasa.gov/subscribeAuthor Abby GrafPosted on August 27, 2023Categories Expedition 69Tags Canadian Space Agency, European Space Agency, International Space Station, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, JAXA, NASA, Roscosmos, spacex
The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft approaches the space station as it soars over Ontario on Aug. 27, 2023. Photo Credit: NASA TV
F9/Crew-7: More arrival comments. Moghbeli: "Thank you to the entire SpaceX team, to those who worked on the Falcon 9, on our Dragon and even on preparing us. ... We have to keep reminding ourselves when we open that hatch we're not walking out into the training center"
F9/Crew-7: Andreas Mogensen: "This is the first step of the journey. The real mission begins now on board the International Space Station. We have a lot of exciting work ahead of us that we look forward to"
F9/Crew-7: Satoshi Furukawa: "It was just like a training session in Hawthorne, California. And I'd like to express my appreciation to NASA, ESA, the USA, Roscosmos, JAXA and especially SpaceX for flying us safely to the International Space Station. Thank you"
F9/Crew-7: Konstantin Borisov: "Like my friends said, it was really, really close to what we have experienced during the training. ... Very excited, very happy to be on ISS. ... Thanks SpaceX for this marvelous vehicle"
F9/Crew-7: Flight controllers are working through an extensive series of check outs, verifying an airtight structure seal at Harmony's zenith docking port; hatch opening is expected around 11am EDT (1500 UTC) but the exact timing is TBD
