NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi arrived at the International Space Station Monday, as the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience docked to the complex a 11:01 p.m. EST over Idaho.
Following Crew Dragon’s link up to the Harmony module, the astronauts aboard the Resilience and the space station will begin conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening scheduled for 1:10 a.m.
Hopkins, Glover, Walker, and Noguchi will join the Expedition 64 crew of Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, both of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA.
NASA Television and the agency’s website are continuing to provide live continuous coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-1 mission.
Follow along with mission activities and get more information at: https://blogs.nasa.gov/station/. Learn more about commercial crew and space station activities by following @Commercial_Crew, @space_station, and @ISS_Research on Twitter as well as the Commercial Crew Facebook, ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.
Congratulations, I have been watching the NASA channel for two days, this event is exciting, all of you are apart of the continuation of our space program, this is better than Star Trek! I wish I was there with all of you! Good luck and happy journey… Linda
Absolutely awesome I wish them a great journey and safety God bless them
Awesomeness!!! So exciting to see real time, super Kool SpaceX docking with Space Station
Congratulations
Too awesome for words
Good job Crew
Amazing progress in the space career
This is very interesting after the retirement of the space shuttles congratulations NASA and space x
Great job! Glad to see that the U.S is back into space and that the Space X rockets are working as planned. Can’t wait to see the Starship get into space!
Congratulations!!!
As someone almost 80 I am totally in awe of everything related to the space program. Thanks for making it available for us to “travel” along. Be safe, and God Bless all of you.