How does a spaceship dock with the ISS 250 miles above Earth and enable its crew to transfer to the ISS? NASA’s live stream on Monday will reveal all.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule is currently flying NASA’s second all-private mission to the International Space Station (ISS).
Following a successful launch from the Kennedy Space Center aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday afternoon, Americans Peggy Whitson and John Shoffner, together with Saudi Arabians Ali Alqarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, are set to reach the orbital laboratory on Monday morning ET.
Whitson is a retired NASA astronaut who now works for Axiom Space, which is organizing the current Ax-2 mission. Shoffner is a businessman and investor who’s paying his own way to orbit, while Alqarni and Barnawi are funded by the Saudi Space Commission and will be the first people from their country to visit the ISS.
