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>> reporter: the crew of ax-1 successfully docked at the international space station saturday morning following a 20-hour journey. now, this was a first of its kind mission. that's because all of the astronauts on board were private astronauts, and they were greeted once they boarded the international space station by the entire crew of expedition 67, which included three nasa astronauts, a european astronaut, as well as three russian cosmonauts. larry connors, the pilot of ax-1, had some words about the historic nature of this mission. take a listen. >> we're here to experience this, but we u...

Some folks stayed overnight to get the very best spot for Friday's launch.

The mission, hailed as a milestone in commercialised space flight, will see the astronauts conducting more than two dozen science experiments aboard the ISS

The 4-member crew lifted off on SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 rocket at 11.17 a.m. EDT (8.47 pm IST) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the company said.

Irrationally these days, it is difficult to predict what they are going to do, i am not concerned, if they decide to be irrational about this and leave mark up there, not bring him back at the end of the month as per the schedule, we have two dragon flights going up, american dragon flights at the ax-1 mission and middle of april, crew four mission. the dragon will carry as many as six astronauts, we could put extra seat in there and bring mark back. my sources tell me to date, nasa has heard nothing officially to the extent that mark will not be brought back. the russians, there is no up side...