Thursday, March 28, 2019

SpaceX Successfully Docks With The ISS

On March 3rd 2019, SpaceX's Crew Dragon space craft made history as the first commercial crew capable space craft to successfully dock with the International Space Station (ISS). The unmanned Crew Dragon began its mission when it blasted of atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday March 2nd. After a series of maneuvers, the Crew Dragon achieved soft capture hours later at 5:51 AM EST. Astronauts are not expected to fly the Crew Dragon until NASA has reviewed all of the data from the mission.

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