{"id":22109,"date":"2022-10-07T23:53:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/crew-5-arrives-at-the-international-space-station\/"},"modified":"2022-10-07T23:53:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-07T15:53:31","slug":"crew-5-arrives-at-the-international-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/crew-5-arrives-at-the-international-space-station\/","title":{"rendered":"Crew 5 Arrives at the International Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Following a mostly uneventful countdown, Crew 5 lifted off on top of a Falcon 9 rocket at 12:00:56 Eastern time and successfully reached orbit 9 minutes later. The only event of note was the discovery of a hair around the seal of the Dragon side hatch. This required the hatch to be reopened, having the FOD (Foreign Object Debris) cleared, then resealed. <\/p>\n

Once on orbit, the crew doffed (took off) their suits and got comfortable for their 28 hour journey to the station. Endurance<\/em>\u2018s chase of the orbiting laboratory involved a series of pre-planned engine firings to add speed and raise its orbit at the right times to finally catch up and dock with the station.<\/p>\n

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Crew 5 wasted no time and already started doing experiments even before arriving. With the spare time they had before docking operations began on the morning of October 6th, the crew did some experiments for SpaceX to help improve the use of the Dragon spacecraft.<\/p>\n

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