SpaceX’s Crew Dragon docks with space station

Xinhua28 Apr 2023, 14:05 GMT+10 LOS ANGELES, April 27 (Xinhua) — U.S. private space company SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule which carries four astronauts autonomously docked with the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday. The spacecraft, dubbed Freedom by the mission’s crew, was launched at 3:52 a.m. Eastern Day Time (EDT) (0752 GMT) Wednesday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It docked with the ISS after about 16 hours of flight. The Crew-4 flight carries three NASA astronauts – Mission Commander Kjell Lindgren, Pilot Bob Hines, and Mission Specialist Jessica Watkins, and one astronaut of the European Space Agency, Mission Specialist Samantha Cristoforetti.