Saturday, April 24, 2021

SpaceX Update: Endeavour Has Docked with the ISS...

As seen from inside Crew Dragon Resilience, Crew Dragon Endeavour is about to dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on April 24, 2021.
NASA - Mike Hopkins

Earlier today, Crew Dragon Endeavour ended her almost 24-hour chase of the International Space Station (ISS) when she finally docked to the orbital outpost at 5:08 AM, Eastern Daylight Time (2:08 AM, Pacific Daylight Time). For the next four days, the ISS will be populated by 11 crew members (four astronauts from the newly-arrived Crew-2, four astronauts from Crew-1 and one astronaut, plus two cosmonauts, who launched aboard Russia's Soyuz MS-18 vehicle from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on April 9). The Crew-1 astronauts will then board their Crew Dragon Resilience vehicle on April 28 and return to Earth for a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean...off the coast of Florida later that day.

Crew-3 is set to launch to the ISS no earlier than late October—while Resilience will be refurbished and reused for the 3-day Inspiration4 mission, which will have an all-civilian crew, that's scheduled to fly in mid-September.

With the arrival of Crew-2 on April 24, the ISS will be populated by 11 astronauts until April 28...when Crew-1 returns to Earth for a splashdown off the coast of Florida.
NASA TV

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