France 24 reported that NASA and SpaceX confirmed the successful docking of SpaceX’s new Dragon capsule on the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday.
The docking began at 1051 GMT, more than 400 kilometers above the Earth’s surface after the capsule’s launch on Saturday by a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The ISS and the capsule are moving at a speed of over 27,000 kilometers per hour in orbit around the Earth.
The mission is a test launch with only a dummy on board the Dragon capsule ahead of a manned flight scheduled for later this year.
The Dragon capsule will remain on the ISS until Friday before detaching to splash down in the Atlantic. It will be slowed by four parachutes, in what is the one of the mission’s riskiest stages.
The launch is a key step towards resuming manned space flights from US soil after an eight-year break.
Via France 24 and NASA
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