The U.S. house company NASA says two U.S. astronauts, one other from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and a Russian cosmonaut are safely aboard the International Space Station (ISS) after their Space-X Dragon crew capsule docked Friday with the orbiting laboratory.
Video from NASA confirmed U.S. astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev being greeted warmly by ISS crew members as they entered the house station about two hours after the docking.
The 41-year-old Alneyadi is the second individual from his nation to fly to house and the primary to launch from U.S. soil as a part of a long-duration house station crew.
Space-X says the brand new crew members will spend six months on the station, the place they’ll conduct greater than 200 science experiments and expertise demonstrations,
NASA says the docking was delayed barely as mission groups accomplished troubleshooting of a defective docking hook sensor on the Dragon capsule. They verified all the docking hooks have been correctly configured, and the docking course of continued.
The new crew members temporally develop the ISS crew to 11. They be a part of the Expedition 68 crew, NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, and Josh Cassada, Japanese house company, JAXA, astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina.
Some info for this report was offered by the Associated Press, Reuters and Agence France-Presse.