Spacex crew dragon was able to dock with the International Space station on monday. This was the first fully operational approved mission for spacex following an earlier test mission back in may. A look at the docking process courtesy of nasa tv. We are waiting for the crew to confirm that they are ready. We are waiting for the crew to confirm it looks like we have gone through sunset, and we will get the lights strobe being so we can see the target. We are good to proceed. Blinders are down. Copy. You are go to proceed advisors are down, that is great to hear. We will come and the resume shortly. As a reminder, once dragon is inside the crew hands off break. Copy all. I am ready. We have go from the crew. They will be starting this procedure shortly. They will start approaching that docking adapter that you see any screen. Once we get close enough we will do a soft capture. Followed by the insertion of the pins for the heart capture. We also heard the core mention that once we reached
That they are ready. We are waiting for the crew to confirm it looks like we have gone through sunset, and we will get the lights strobe being so we can see the target. We are good to proceed. Blinders are down. Copy. You are go to proceed advisors are down, that is great to hear. We will come and the resume shortly. As a reminder, once dragon is inside the crew hands off break. Copy all. I am ready. We have go from the crew. They will be starting this procedure shortly. They will start approaching that docking adapter that you see any screen. Once we get close enough we will do a soft capture. Followed by the insertion of the pins for the heart capture. We also heard the core mention that once we reached the crews hands off point, the chop call, retrieve and break out are permitted. That will be from the crew. The vehicle can still abort if necessary. Everything is continuing to look good for crew dragon. Ready to depart waypoint two. The final approach has begun. Crew dragon moving i
Congress. Watch washington journal live at 7 00 a. M. Eastern Tuesday Morning. Be sure to join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, Text Messages and tweets. Spacex crew dragon is making contact with the International Space station this evening. We expect the docking to begin around 11 00 p. M. Eastern once that occurs, there will be a welcoming ceremony for the four astronauts on board. We also expect a News Conference with nasa officials in the early or morning hours. This is live coverage on cspan. We will next move through wave. 1, 220 meters away directly in front of the docking port. Where dragon docked steering demo one and demo two. We will be looking for the go to keep out the sphere of 200 meter radius, and invisible line around the station that helps flight controllers monitor vehicles they approach and depart the International Space station. Such a cool view. Seeing dragon with the canada arm from the station. The earth in the background. We use to use t
Well, were just 60 meters away. We should get there in just over two minutes. Meanwhile, teams in hawthorne and in houston doing their internal go and no fold. Once its go, well get the dragon autonomously fly in, doc with the International Spay station. Just about one minute and 45 seconds. At this point it will be 20 meters away at the international dock. Number two attached, meeting adapter number 2 at the very forward end of the harmony module. Right there around the center, you can see the hash, you can see a couple of handles. There is a feature that looks a little bronzeish. Thats part of the soft capture system. So pretty wild, were so close that were getting shadows from the station on dragon, wow. These are viewed from two cameras. The movement is a little jarring at times. These cameras are being commanded by a person at th thee console through houston. They continue to follow dragon in. We thank them for their diligence to give us these views as were just less than 30 minut
Hawthorne teams in and in houston doing their internal gono go for docking. Once everyone is go, we will be able to give the final goahead. 0 meters away at the international dock. Number two attached, meeting adapter number 2 at the very forward end of the harmony see the hash, you can see a couple of handles. There is a feature that looks a little bronzeish. Thats part of the soft capture system. So pretty wild, were so close that were getting shadows from the station on dragon, wow. These are viewed from two cameras. The movement is a little jarring at times. These cameras are being commanded by a person at th thee console through houston. They continue to follow dragon in. We thank them for their diligence to give us these views as were just less than 30 minutes away from docking. Right above the nasa meatball logo you can seethree of the Service Section draco thrusters. Thats right, 12 in all. Four of those clusters spread around the vehicle. Used for a lot of attitude control. An