“Welcome to the ISS. We can’t wait to have you onboard.”
Four astronauts riding a newly designed spacecraft from Elon Musk’s SpaceX docked with the International Space Station Monday night, in the first crewed mission on a privately built space capsule purchased by NASA. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience by its crew of three Americans and one Japanese astronaut, docked at 11:01 p.m. EST (4:01 GMT),27 hours after launching atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The space station, an orbital laboratory about 250 miles (400 km) above Earth, will be their home for the next six months.
