NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon have arrived at the International Space Station. Crew-1 joins 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.
The crew members first opened the hatch between the space station and the pressurized mating adapter at 1:02 a.m. EST then opened the hatch to Crew Dragon.
NASA TV will continue to provide live coverage through the welcoming ceremony with NASA’s Associate Administrator for Human Exploration and Operations Kathy Lueders joining to greet the crew from the Mission Control Center at NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston, and JAXA President Hiroshi Yamakawa joining from the Tsukuba Space Center in Japan. The welcome ceremony is targeted to begin about 1:40 a.m.
About 2 a.m., NASA will host a news conference following the welcome ceremony with the following participants:
- Kathy Lueders, associate administrator for human exploration and operations, NASA Headquarters
- Johnson Center Director Mark Geyer
- Ven Feng, deputy manager, NASA’s Commercial Crew Program
- Joel Montalbano, program manager, International Space Station
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.
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I have really enjoyed watching all the updates on the ISS activity. Thank you for covering the information.
Thank you for the live coverage. It was amazing to watch. As a 73 year old grandmother, I kept thinking, this will be the way my youngest grandchild (4), will be traveling in the future.
Bravo, huge accomplishment being able to bring these astronauts together. God bless your mission. Your talents and resiliency are amazing. Thanks for letting us see your work at the space station.
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