SpaceX - Dragon Crew-3 Mission patch.
Nov. 11, 2021
Crew Dragon Endurance arrival to the International Space Station (ISS)
NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer arrived at the International Space Station at 6:32 p.m. EST Thursday, Nov. 11. Crew Dragon Endurance docked to the orbital complex while the spacecrafts were flying 260 miles above the eastern Caribbean Sea.
Crew Dragon Endurance arrival to the International Space Station (ISS)
Following Crew Dragon’s link up to the Harmony module, the astronauts aboard the Endurance and the space station will begin conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening scheduled for approximately 8:10 p.m.
Crew Dragon Endurance at 3 meters of the docking port
Chari, Marshburn, Barron, and Maurer will join the Expedition 66 crew 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 laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration missions as part of NASA’s Moon and Mars exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.
SpaceX Crew-3 docking
The welcome ceremony is at approximately 8:45 p.m. with time subject to change.
Image above: Nov. 11, 2021: International Space Station Configuration. Five spaceships are parked at the space station including Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus space freighter; the SpaceX Crew Dragon vehicle; and Russia’s Soyuz MS-19 crew ship and Progress 78 and 79 resupply ships.
NASA’s 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 agency’s third crew rotation mission.
Related article:
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Astronauts Headed to International Space Station
https://orbiterchspacenews.blogspot.com/2021/11/nasas-spacex-crew-3-astronauts-headed.html
Related links:
Crew-3: https://go.nasa.gov/31b7VE2
Commercial Crew: https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html
Commercial Space: http://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/index.html
International Space Station (ISS): https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/main/index.html
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