NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 Flight Day 2 Highlightes

NASA's SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft carrying
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European
Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA
(Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut
Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut
Konstantin Borisov autonomously docked to the
space-facing port of the Harmony module of the
International Space Station at 9:16 a.m. EDT on Aug.
27 following a launch the day before on the SpaceX
Dragon Endurance spacecraft aboard a Falcon 9
rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's
Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Following docking,
the quartet opened the hatch and floated onboard the
orbital outpost before providing welcoming remarks
as their mission aboard the space station began. The
four creW members will conduct a long-duration
science mission living and working aboard the
microgravity laboratory to advance scientific
knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for
future human and robotic exploration missions. Such
research benefits people on Earth and lays the
groundwork for future human exploration through the
agency's Artemis missions, which will send astronauts
to the Moon to prepare for future expeditions to Mars.