The Crew Dragon arrival briefly boosts the space station crew to 11 in the first of two crew rotation flights.
A SpaceX Crew Dragon ferry ship docked at the International Space Station Sunday after a 29-hour rendezvous, bringing four fresh crew members to the lab to replace four others wrapping up a six-month stay in orbit.
The 11 astronauts and cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station: Crew-7, front row, left to right: Konstantin Borisov, Andreas Mogensen, Jasmin Moghbeli and Satoshi Furukawa; second row, left to right: UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, Soyuz MS-23/69S astronaut Frank Rubio, MS-23/69S commander Sergey Prokopyev, Crew-6 pilot Woody Hoburg and Crew-6 commander Stephen Bowen; floating upside down, left to right: Soyuz MS-23/69S cosmonaut Dmitri Petelin and Crew-6 cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
A camera aboard the space station captures a view of the Crew Dragon as it loops up in front of the lab on the way to a point directly above the Harmony module's space-facing docking port.Moghbeli, a Marine Corps helicopter test pilot, said,"It's so good to see all your smiling faces. As you know, we've been training together for a while for this exact moment where we could join you and continue the amazing work that's done on the International Space Station.
Moghbeli and her Crew-7 colleagues blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center early Saturday atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. It was NASA's seventh operational Crew Dragon flight to the space station and the first featuring crew members from four different space agencies.
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