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Around 16 hours after launching aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Crew Dragon Endeavour successfully docked to the International Space Station at 2:27 AM EDT today (11:27 PM PDT on Friday night)...completing the Crew-11 astronauts' journey to the orbital outpost.
The hatches between Endeavour and the station's Harmony module opened at 3:46 AM EDT (12:46 AM PDT), allowing Crew-11 to unite with the Expedition 73 astronauts for a welcome ceremony. Crew-10 will soon depart the ISS aboard Crew Dragon Endurance, with her re-entry and splashdown in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California set for sometime next week (weather permitting).
Crew-11 is scheduled to remain at the ISS till April of next year, though the mission may be extended depending on the outcome of Trump's 2026 budget proposal for NASA.
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