SpaceX capsule with four astronauts on board docks with the International Space Station
Photo by Joel Kowsky/NASA via Getty Images A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts aboard successfully docked with the International Space Station early Saturday to start its six-month mission, NASA announced. Crew-2, as it's been dubbed, is SpaceX's third astronaut mission under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. It brings NASA's Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, AkihikoHoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and ThomasPesquet, a French aerospace engineer from the European Space Agency (ESA) to the ISS, which travels at more than 17,000 miles per hour in orbit roughly 250 miles above Earth.
A Falcon 9 rocket which was used for SpaceX's Crew-1 mission in 2020, launched early Friday for its 24-hour trip to the ISS. The Falcon 9 carried Endeavour, the...