{"id":13301,"date":"2019-03-07T18:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/photos-crew-dragon-moves-in-for-first-docking\/"},"modified":"2019-03-07T18:45:16","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T10:45:16","slug":"photos-crew-dragon-moves-in-for-first-docking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/photos-crew-dragon-moves-in-for-first-docking\/","title":{"rendered":"Photos: Crew Dragon moves in for first docking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took these pictures of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft as it approached for docking Sunday, a day after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n

The capsule linked up with a docking port on the forward end of the station\u2019s Harmony module at 5:51 a.m. EST (1051 GMT) Sunday, beginning a five-day stay at the orbiting research outpost as part of an unpiloted test flight before crews strap into the spacecraft for a ride into low Earth orbit later this year.<\/p>\n

These images show the Crew Dragon\u2019s final approach to the station, its open nose cone revealing a hatch and docking mechanism.<\/p>\n

Follow our Mission Status Center for continued updates on the flight of the Crew Dragon spacecraft.<\/p>\n

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Astronauts aboard the International Space Station took these pictures of SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft as it approached for docking Sunday, a day after launching from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The capsule linked up with a docking port on the forward end of the station\u2019s Harmony module at 5:51 a.m. EST (1051 GMT) Sunday, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1022,524,291,235,2657,1949,579,2704],"class_list":["post-13301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-anne-mcclain","tag-commercial-crew","tag-commercial-space","tag-crew-dragon","tag-crew-dragon-demo-1","tag-david-saint-jacques","tag-docking","tag-expedition-58"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}