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.
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.
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.
God speed crew dragon.
Great to see NASA with SpaceX has the capability to launch astronauts from home soil again. I watched the moon landings in my teenage years. I hope to see it all over again. In the meantime I’ll enjoy the launches to the Space Station.
This is so amazing so exciting I am so happy to be seeing this in my lifetime, Bless you all and all of us and be safe and have fun
How long are they going to be there? And what will they be doing?
This will be a six-month research mission aboard the space station.
Kudos to Elon Musk, the brave astronauts, and all the hardworking SpaceX workers!
Great work!
Kudos to Elon Musk, the brave astronauts, and all the hardworking Spacex workers!
Great work!
I’m so happy so happy that everybody is safe and that their journeys almost there it’s exciting lifetime so I will be watching the dragon hook up to the shuttle I’m excited thank you so much for sharing with us with me God bless all love Catherine
Thank you for sharing
Just awesome!
I saw the ISS as it flew over south Texas an the astronauts following getting ready to dock in about 2 hr.
These are four very brave people the three young men and a young woman flying out to the International Space Station…Well done Crew God Speed
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR LETTING US WATCH LIVE AND IN PERSON IN BRADENTON FLORIDA IT WAS A AMAZING MOMENT IN MY HISTORY FOR SURE ..