NASA & SpaceX - Dragon Crew-1 Mission patch.
Nov. 16, 2020
Four Commercial Crew astronauts aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon are awake following their first sleep period in space. The quartet from the U.S. and Japan are now focusing on docking to the International Space Station at 11 p.m. EST today.
The SpaceX crew will first give a video tour of the inside of the Crew Dragon today live on NASA TV beginning at 4:48 p.m. Following that mission controllers will give the first “go-no go” for the station approach maneuver at 9:05 p.m.
Crew Dragon docking at ISS
Today’s wakeup call for the SpaceX Crew-1 mission was Phil Collins’ “In the Air Tonight” and came at 12:10 p.m. All four crewmates slept for eight hours in their Crew Dragon seats while SpaceX mission controllers in Hawthorne, California, monitored vehicle systems.
The three NASA astronauts and one JAXA astronaut are now getting ready to dock to the international docking adapter on the Harmony module’s forward port. Commander Michael Hopkins and Pilot Victor Glover, alongside Mission Specialists Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi, will be at the controls as the Crew Dragon completes a fully automated rendezvous and docking sequence tonight.
Image above: Commercial Crew astronauts (from left) Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins and Soichi Noguchi walk out to the launch pad before beginning the SpaceX Crew-1 mission on Nov. 15, 2020. Image Credit: NASA.
Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins is asleep onboard the station and will wake up tonight at 9:05 p.m. Afterward, she’ll begin working joint operations with the approaching Crew Dragon vehicle and ready the orbiting lab for four new crewmates.
Related articles:
SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Continue Journey to Station
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/11/spacex-crew-1-astronauts-continue.html
Crew Dragon Reaches Orbit!
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2020/11/crew-dragon-reaches-orbit.html
Related links:
NASA Television: https://www.nasa.gov/live
Commercial Crew: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html
SpaceX: https://www.spacex.com/
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
Animation, Image (mentioned), Text, Credits: NASA/Mark Garcia.
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