NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have successfully arrived at the International Space Station, approximately 19-hours after launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This mission marks also the first private company to launch astronauts for NASA. The Crew Dragon capsule docked with the station at 10:17 a.m. EST while transiting over the border of northern China and Mongolia. Read more for two videos and additional information.
The astronauts tested the vehicle’s control and life support systems during their 19-hour journey, along with some shut eye in their sleeping bags. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon is specially designed to dock autonomously to the ISS, but since this is a test run, Hurley and Doug took over the manual controls when they got near the station to test the vehicle’s controls before letting the computer complete the final docking sequence.
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It’s been a real honor to be be just a small part of this nine-year endeavor since the last time a United States spaceship has docked with the International Space Station. I want to complement the [SpaceX] teams at Hawthorne. Just a spectacular job with the simulator as the vehicle flew exactly like the simulators out in Hawthorne,” said Hurley.
