SpaceX crew successfully docks at ISS on historic mission

ELON MUSK's SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon spacecraft has safely docked at the International Space Station.

"SpaceX, this is Resilience. Excellent job, right down the center," Mission Commander Michael Hopkins radioed to ground control after docking on the ISS. "SpaceX and NASA, congratulations. This is a new era of operational flight to the International Space Station from the Florida coast."

The four-person craft took off from Florida's Kennedy Space Center Sunday night, and has docked on the ISS after a 27-hour journey. SpaceX founder Musk could not attend liftoff due to a "moderate" case of the coronavirus.

The docking will be followed by a "welcome ceremony" at 1:40 AM Eastern on Tuesday, where all four astronauts will be able to exit their spacecraft since they took off.

The four astronauts consist of three from NASA: Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and one from Japan's space agency Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Soichi Noguchi.

Also on board the spacecraft was a small "Baby Yoda" plush toy, which helped serve as a "zero-g indicator" for the ride.

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[Jakynast]

A depressing amount of paranoid basment dwelling types in the comments. Space exists guys, chill.

[bespokespokes]

No social distancing in space, should have been an astronaut for physical contact in 2020

[richardcranium]

Pretty damn cool to watch.
And its nice to see something positive for a change.

[bigbadwolf]

Where do they get the oxygen from? A sub is actually far more self sustaining than the space station - due to the nature of water availability. The ISS WILL run out of air (oxygen) if it's not periodically replenished, either as oxygen, or as water to make it from. As long as the reactor is running, a nuclear-powered submarine will NEVER run out of air, but that can not be said of the ISS.

[leemckenzie]

Wow, the flat earthers and those that don't believe we've been to the moon (space) are out in force today. Must have had their habitat disturbed :D :D :D

[liamlee]

I love how the one russian cosmonaut just sits there with this look on my face like "Hehehe"

[ahmadillo]

2:20 love the baby yoda floating his way in

[frogmarched]

i wonder if they have a nice chef up there cooking food for these people

[smeghead]

This sci-fi show has crap special effects.

[nonamenobody]

It’s all fun and games till you have a windows update while falling to the earth

[brittishman]

WoW, these special effects have come a long way since the early days of Flash Gordon Aye??? Well Done👍👍👍

[kmkaiser]

Ashes to ashes
Funk to funky
We know Major Tom's a junky
Rip Gus Grissom

[gvsteady]

God bless our space force the job fellas!

[buggerlugz]

0:29 seconds, who's the guy in the space suit walking across the bottom of the picture?

[ItsroryCarnell]

Bruh they have to wear masks at their desks, rip healthy skin

[Chumfin]

How much does this amount of deviation from geodesics cost

[joefather]

Imagine not having earth's problems AND having three new people to keep you sane

[DONBGWEST]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you space fanboys need to open your What an absolute joke 🤣🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️🤦🏻‍♂️

[nahuati]

Plenty of idiot comments on this. These astronauts are the bravest and the brightest lights we have.

[SuperKawaiiChannel]

Every mission is HISTORIC? More like HIST(E)RIC!