Crew Dragon docked with the ISS on March 3 at 6:02 a.m. EST, becoming the first American spacecraft to autonomously dock with the orbiting laboratory. You can watch a replay of the docking webcast below and find out more about the mission in our press kit.
SpaceX has to be pretty pleased with how Crew Dragon and the Falcon 9 rocket performed these past few days. Everything went pretty much perfectly, and now it’s clear that SpaceX is in the lead and ahead of competitor Boeing in the race to provide NASA with the means to send astronauts into space whenever it wants.
Boeing, which is working on the much-hyped Starliner crewed spacecraft, has yet to send it into space and perform any kind of preliminary uncrewed test flight to the space station.
Last week, upon completing its pre-launch reviews, NASA estimated that if the demonstration flight went well we could see crewed flights within a few months. That timeline looks to still be intact after a solid showing by the Crew Dragon.
Future is coming soon where we are going and landing on moon, mars and beyond.
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