Sunday, 3 March 2019

'Hard Capture Is Complete': SpaceX Capsule Docks With International Space Station

'Hard Capture Is Complete': SpaceX Capsule Docks With International Space Station

"We can confirm hard capture is complete." Those words at 6:02 a.m. ET Sunday confirmed that SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule had successfully attached itself to the International Space Station, about 27 hours after lifting off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Plans call for it to remain docked with the station for five days. On March 8, it will undock and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean around 8:45 a.m. ET.

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