NASAs SpaceX Crew-6 astronauts are protected in their seats inside the Dragon spacecraft Endeavour. From left are Andrey Fedyaev, Roscosmos cosmonaut and objective specialist; NASA astronaut Warren Hoburg, pilot; NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen, spacecraft leader; and Sultan Alneyadi, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut and objective specialist.
NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, together with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev came to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, as the SpaceX Dragon, called Endeavour, docked to the complex at 1:40 a.m. EST while the station was 260 statute miles over the Indian Ocean off the east coast of Somalia. Crew-6 astronauts launched aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour on a SpaceX Falcon 9 at 12:34 a.m. EST on Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Docking was postponed a little as mission groups finished troubleshooting a defective docking hook sensor on Dragon. The NASA and SpaceX groups validated that all of the docking hooks were in the correct configuration, and SpaceX developed a software override for the faulty sensing unit that allowed the docking procedure to effectively continue.
Following Dragons link to the Harmony module, the astronauts aboard the Dragon and the space station will begin performing standard leak checks and pressurization in between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening arranged for 3:18 a.m. The Harmony module, also called Node 2, is a pressurized module on the International Space Station that was introduced in 2007. Its primary function is to link various other modules on the ISS together, providing additional berthing ports for checking out spacecraft and enabling for the setup of additional clinical equipment and modules.
Crew-6 will sign up with the Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, and Josh Cassada, along with Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina. For a brief time, the number of team on the area station will increase to 11 individuals until Crew-5 departs.
