ISS Update #2: Crew Dragon Endurance and Another DNA Biobank Have Arrived at the Orbital Outpost!

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Just like the soon-to-be-completed Crew-4 mission, Crew-5 brought to the International Space Station a second biobank capsule provided by LifeShip.com! Inside this capsule are the DNA samples of 500 plant and animal species, as well as those of thousands of humans (including Yours Truly). The names of 10,000 people have also rode to the ISS with this special container.

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The Crew-5 Astronauts Dock to the Space Station (News Release)

NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina arrived at the International Space Station on Thursday, October 6, as SpaceX's Dragon Endurance docked to the complex at 5:01 p.m. EDT while the spacecraft were flying 258 miles above the west coast of Africa.

Following Dragon’s link-up to the Harmony module, the crew aboard Dragon Endurance and the space station will begin conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening scheduled for 6:42 p.m.

Mann, Cassada, Wakata and Kikina will join the Expedition 68 crew of NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, Frank Rubio and Jessica Watkins, Samantha Cristoforetti of ESA (European Space Agency), and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitri Petelin. For a short time, the number of crew on the space station will increase to 11 people until Crew-4 departs.

NASA Television and the agency’s website are continuing to provide live continuous coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission.

Source: NASA.Gov

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Station Commander @AstroSamantha welcomes the four @SpaceX #Crew5 members aboard the station as they join the Exp 68 crew for several months of @ISS_Research. pic.twitter.com/rTwfu5KWgn

— International Space Station (@Space_Station) October 7, 2022