Crew-7 | Approach and Docking

On Sunday, August 27 at 9:16 a.m. ET, SpaceX’s Dragon autonomously docked with the International Space Station. Almost 30 hours earlier at 3:27 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft and Crew-7 to orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

During their time on the orbiting laboratory, the crew will conduct science and technology demonstrations to prepare for human exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and to benefit humanity on Earth.

[thedarkside]

Approach & Docking:
beautiful views,

2:00:23 23 meters,
2:01:42 20 meters,
2:03:29 10 meters,
2:04:31 5 meters,
2:05:23 1 meters,
2:05:40 Docking/soft capture completed,
2:16:22 Hard capture completed (no views).

Thanks!

[franklinmargolis]

Hard work for crew 7. Long time off earth. Admire their courage and dedication. Jealous honestly. Thanks Elon and Spacex team.

[DanBullard]

The approach is numbingly slow, but quoting Broncos Guru on boating, "Never approach something faster than you want to hit it."

[BerkleyJones]

Bravo! so cool to see this in my time. i feel lucky to be alive!! Well done Space X and Nasa

[DouglasJMark]

Wonderful work everybody. Seems to becoming routine like taking a plane to far off countries. In a few years, I hope Starships will be blasting off and landing as routinely as Falcon 9 with Cargo and Crew Dragons today. Lotsa love to all ❤❤❤

[Michaelthehoney]

Omg that so amazing and congratulations for efforts to bring the crew to ISS.

[davidhernandez]

Congratulations, SpaceX mission accomplished & congrats to the Mission-Comm., Jasmine Mobhbeli, job well done👍.!

[nora]

How impressive to follow the docking procedure live on here, trying to reflect what we see and hear 😁I like to express what a magnificent art of precise technology! On top awesome moderation of the Space Ladies 👌😍, thx for sharing it on here and explaining everything to us. Greets from Germany 🇩🇪 so incredible !

[zapfanzapfan]

Very nice views of the Earth in the background. Just missing the An Den Schönen Blauen Donau 🙂

#JessieFanClub

[jonmarquez]

Dockiing SpaceX Dragon to ISS. Is like trying to parallel park a car! 😆

[TheOneStoneAngell]

So strange that we had no video from the lab to the crew cabin during the final moments.

[yoshimitsu]

To think that the guy tweeting memes on Twitter every hour made all this possible

[TheMonkeyNeuron]

Adding ambient sound from inside the capsule you’re already streaming video from would add a lot to the immersive effect the interior and exterior docking sequences.

It would also allow the broadcast to require fewer superfluous comments from the stream “hosts”.

[starman]

The first space docking I remember following was a Gemini-Agena mission.

[claytonwchurchill]

Just to be precise, the 9 Merlin 1D engines were ignited at 03:44 not 03:27 as Jessie stated. Seconds count in landing ship to ship.

[MrConsto]

All this at 17, 300mph no space debris a perfectly stationary ISS waiting and no chase needed. It’s amazing what one can achieve these days

[KarthikV-BE_MBA]

INTERSTELLAR BGM MISSING 2:00:50 ...😊😊😊

[planetsec]

NASA needs to install a Starlink receiver on the ISS already, ever since TDRS-9 deorbited the handovers have been unbearably long and boring, so glad the onboard Dragon camera was there to show docking

[MavericksDrone]

We sit with our dopamine rectangles and these guys do this.

[AtomMachinerule]

Leah from NASA is cute😍 and so professional. The whole spaceship thing was cool too 😂