SpaceX Nasa Mission: Astronaut capsule docks with space station

[hunter]

Source: BBC News

US astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken have docked with the International Space Station (ISS).

Their Dragon capsule - supplied and operated by the private SpaceX company - edged them into port on the high-flying lab's bow section.

The men will have to wait for leak and pressure checks to be completed before they can disembark and join the Russian and American crew already on the ISS.


Read more: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-52867494

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Excellent!

[samnsara]

1. i caught it this morning about 10 minutes before docking....i watched the lift off yesterday

..until some bozo came on and started giving trump all the cred..tuned it off til now. I will watch until trumps name is mentioned then off it will go again.

[Bengus81]

8. Was that the same guy from NASA.....

Who yesterday was bleating on how nine years ago they couldn't get Congress (and probably Obama) excited about doing space shots again.

Well fucking DUHHHHHH...we were still on the mend in 2011 from what was almost the second great depression brought on by yet another Republican. Yeah so sorry pal that peoples welfare and the housing disaster came before a couple of guys in a can.

[Bayard]

2. Very cool beans

But why not just use the transporter?

[mitch96]

4. +1!

[Devil Child]

3. Excellent! n/t

[House of Roberts]

5. The guy narrating stopped at one point and just said 'wow',

and I thought 'that is the textbook definition of a 'nerdgasm', right here on national TV.

[BarbaRosa]

6. Still on going.

Live feed.

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

7. Thanks Obama...

... for setting up this deal.

[FM123]

9. Yay!

Best thing I saw today!

[RussBLib]

10. I love love love it

Perhaps I missed where Trump took credit for it? Hadn't seen that yet, astonishingly.

I'm not down on Musk like some of you. Living within 5 miles of the Boca Chica SpaceX site, I want everything to succeed brilliantly so we can watch some launches from our back yard.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

11. Now our astronauts have to suffer months of ridicule ...

... about the Star Wars costume that someone made them wear. The cosmonauts will get a great laugh at their expense.

I hope they're prepared.

After that, the dangers of space seem trivial.

[MineralMan]

12. It's amazing how little news there was about this.

Other things going on were apparently much more important. Funny how that works.