The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi onboard, 5:57 am IST Monday, November 16 , 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credits: NASA/Joel Kowsky
Florida: The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience successfully docked to the International Space Station at 11:01 p.m. EST Monday, (9:31 am, Tuesday IST), transporting NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
When the hatches opened about 1:10 a.m. EST Tuesday, (11.40 am IST Tuesday). The Crew-1 astronauts joined Expedition 64 Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA, and station Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov of Roscosmos, who arrived to the station October 14.
Also see: Watch NASA launching astronauts to space station live
– globalbihari bureau
