At 8:14 a.m. EDT on Thursday, the hatch opened between the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the Worldwide House Station following the arrival of Axiom Mission 4. NASA’s stay protection will proceed by welcome remarks from the crew.
The spacecraft docked at 6:31 a.m. to the space-facing port of the house station’s Concord module.
Former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, ISRO (Indian House Analysis Organisation) astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla, ESA (European House Company) astronaut Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski of Poland, and Tibor Kapu of Hungary now are aboard the house station after launching at 2:31 a.m. on June 25, on the corporate’s Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Advanced 39A at NASA’s Kennedy House Middle in Florida for the fourth non-public astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, Axiom Mission 4.
The non-public astronauts plan to spend about two weeks aboard the orbiting laboratory, conducting a mission of science, outreach, and industrial actions.
Be taught extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
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