How to watch Crew Dragon’s historic docking with the ISS today

How to watch Crew Dragon’s historic docking with the ISS today
By Georgina Torbet

Yesterday, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley made history when they became the first crew members to be launched into space from American soil since the ending of the space shuttle program in 2011. They were launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket aboard their SpaceX designed and built Crew Dragon capsule for its first crewed test flight.

Now, they are undergoing a 19-hour journey to the International Space Station (ISS) and keeping livestream viewers entertained with a tour of their spacecraft. Later today they will dock with the ISS, where they’ll disembark and stay for between one and three months.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft is seen in this false color infrared exposure as it is launched on NASA’s SpaceX Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, Saturday, May 30, 2020, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. NASA/Bill Ingalls

NASA Administrator Jim Bridenstine underlined the significance of this achievement in a statement: “Today a new era in human spaceflight begins as we once again launched American astronauts on American rockets from American soil on their way to the International Space Station, our national lab orbiting Earth,” he said.

“I thank and congratulate Bob Behnken, Doug Hurley, and the SpaceX and NASA teams for this significant achievement for the United States. The launch of this commercial space system designed for humans is a phenomenal demonstration of American excellence and is an important step on our path to expand human exploration to the Moon and Mars.”

This is also a big achievement for SpaceX, which has launched crew on the first private spaceflight to orbit. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk was celebratory about the mission: “This is a dream come true for me and everyone at SpaceX,” he said in a statement.

“It is the culmination of an incredible amount of work by the SpaceX team, by NASA and by a number of other partners in the process of making this happen. You can look at this as the results of a hundred thousand people roughly when you add up all the suppliers and everyone working incredibly hard to make this day happen.”

How to watch the docking

This artist’s concept shows a SpaceX Crew Dragon docking with the International Space Station as it will during a mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. SpaceX

The capsule is due to dock with the ISS at 7:29 a.m. PT on Sunday, May 31. Once everything is secured and in place, the hatch between the capsule and the station will open at 9:45 a.m. PT, and Behnken and Hurley will meet their new ISS crewmates face to face. There will be a welcome ceremony for them at 10:15 a.m. PT.

All of these events will be livestreamed and you can watch using the video above.

May 31, 2020 at 12:34PM
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