Saturday, April 24, 2021
SpaceX Update: Endeavour Has Docked with the ISS...
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.
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