December 23, 2024

NASA SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance Docked to the Space Station

The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour is imagined during its method to the International Space Station on April 24, 2021. Credit: NASA
The welcome event is at roughly 8:45 p.m. with time subject to change.
NASAs SpaceX Crew-3 mission lifted off at 9:03 p.m. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the companys third team rotation objective.

By NASA
November 11, 2021

November 11, 2021: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the spaceport station consisting of Northrop Grummans Cygnus area freighter; the SpaceX Crew Dragon automobile; and Russias Soyuz MS-19 team ship and Progress 78 and 79 resupply ships. Credit: NASA
NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer got here at the International Space Station at 6:32 p.m. EST Thursday, November 11. Team Dragon Endurance docked to the orbital complex while the spacecrafts were flying 260 miles above the eastern Caribbean Sea.
Following Crew Dragons link to the Harmony module, the astronauts aboard the Endurance and the area station will start conducting standard leak checks and pressurization in between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening set up for roughly 8:10 p.m
. The astronauts of SpaceX Crew-3 position for a picture in their suits throughout a training session inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. From left are, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer and NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron. Credit: SpaceX
Chari, Marshburn, Barron, and Maurer will sign up with the Expedition 66 team of Mark Vande Hei of NASA and cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov of Roscosmos for a planned six-month mission living and working aboard the microgravity lab to advance scientific understanding and show new technologies for future human and robotic expedition objectives as part of NASAs Moon and Mars exploration technique, consisting of lunar missions through NASAs Artemis program.

5 spaceships are parked at the space station including Northrop Grummans Cygnus area truck; the SpaceX Crew Dragon automobile; and Russias Soyuz MS-19 team ship and Progress 78 and 79 resupply ships. Credit: NASA
From left are, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer and NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Raja Chari and Kayla Barron.