NASA's CRS-29 SpaceX Dragon Cargo Vehicle Arrival | International Space Station

NASA's CRS-29 SpaceX Dragon Cargo Vehicle Arrival | International Space Station

Thrusters on the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft fire automatically while adjusting the vehicle's slow, methodical approach toward the International Space Station for a docking to the Harmony module's forward port.

The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft, on the company's 29th commercial resupply mission for NASA, approaches the International Space Station while orbiting 261 miles above Indonesia's Savu Sea.

The SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft, on the company's 29th commercial resupply mission for NASA, approaches the International Space Station while orbiting 261 miles above the Lesser Sunda Islands.

While the International Space Station was traveling more than 262 miles over central Brazil, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to station’s Harmony module on Nov. 11, 2023, at 5:07 a.m. EST, with NASA astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara monitoring operations from the station.

The Dragon launched on SpaceX’s 29th contracted commercial resupply mission for NASA at 8:28 p.m. EST, Nov. 9, from Launch Complex 39A at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. After Dragon spends about one month attached to the space station, the spacecraft will return to Earth with cargo and research.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency (Denmark)

Roscosmos (Russia): Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Konstantin Borisov

JAXA: Flight Engineer Satoshi Furukawa (Japan)

NASA: Jasmin Moghbeli, Loral O'Hara (USA)

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Image Date: Nov. 11, 2023

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