This was the first time a SpaceX capsule had attempted to attach itself to the station.
The SpaceX team in Hawthorne watches Sunday as the Crew Dragon docks with the International Space Station's Harmony module.
The capsule did not have humans on board. Instead, it carried 400 pounds of supplies for the space station and a mannequin passenger named Ripley, outfitted with multiple sensors to measure her ride to space. During the Hawthorne company’s previous 16 resupply missions, its Dragon cargo capsule hovered below the station until it was grabbed by a robotic arm and attached to a port.
Astronauts aboard the space station opened the capsule’s hatch a little after 5 a.m. Pacific time after conducting leak and other safety checks and Crew Dragon pressurized.It was Crew Dragon’s first test flight and the first launch of NASA’s commercial crew program — a public-private partnership in which the agency awarded SpaceX and Boeing Co. a combined $6.8 billion in contracts to build separate spacecraft that will take NASA astronauts to the space station.
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