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NASA and SpaceX craft carrying two US astronauts docks with International Space Station

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Astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken were blasted into space on Saturday.
The rocket launched into space by NASA and SpaceX on Saturday afternoon has docked with the International Space Station.
The historic mission saw the astronauts launched from US soil for the first time in almost a decade.
US astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center, in Florida, and were accelerated to approximately 17,000mph (27,000kmph) – 22 times the speed of sound – on an intercept course with the ISS.
They orbited the Earth for roughly 19 hours before docking on Sunday.
A few hours before docking, the Crew Dragon riders reported the capsule was performing well.
Hurley and Behnken took over the controls and did some piloting less than a couple hundred yards out as part of the test flight.
They then put it back into automatic controlling for the final approach. Hurley said the capsule handled “really well, very crisp.”
It successfully soft docked at 3.17pm – where the rocket and the ISS first locked together – before docking completely at 3.

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