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Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station

Watch live as SpaceX’s first astronaut-carrying spacecraft docks with the International Space Station

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https://techcrunch.com/2020/05/31/watch-live-as-spacexs-first-astronaut-carrying-spacecraft-docks-with-the-international-space-station/

Today at around 10:30 AM EDT (7:30 AM PDT), SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule will dock with the International Space Station, with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley on board. The two have been in flight on orbit since launching from Kennedy Space Center in Florida yesterday at 3:22 PM EDT, a historic launch that made SpaceX the first private space company to fly people to orbit.

You can watch the livestream above to see the approach and docking maneuver, as well as the transfer process once the hatch opens and Hurley and Behnken make the short trip over from their spacecraft to the ISS. The astronauts will then serve on board the orbital lab for a shortened tour of duty, but taking part in all the activities a regular ISS rotation astronaut would do, before eventually heading home to Earth back aboard Crew Dragon in a few weeks.