SpaceX CRS-33 Cargo Dragon Spacecraft Docking | International Space Station

SpaceX CRS-33 Cargo Dragon Spacecraft Docking | International Space Station

At 7:05 a.m. EDT, Monday, August 25, 2025, the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module. 

The spacecraft carried over 5,000 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory on SpaceX’s 33rd commercial resupply services mission for NASA. The mission launched at 2:45 a.m. on Aug. 24 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida. 

Research conducted aboard the International Space Station advances future space exploration—including Artemis missions to the Moon and astronaut missions Mars—that are intended to "provide benefits to humanity." 

Learn about NASA's Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) Program:
https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/commercial-resupply/

Video details: M+139: Time lapse of SpaceX CRS-33 Dragon docking to the Node2 Forward Port . . . taken from the window of Crew-11’s Dragon. Nikon Z9 | 15mm | ISO 1000, f/1.8, 1/500s

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Expedition 73 Crew

Station Commander: Sergey Ryzhikov (Roscosmos)

JAXA Flight Engineer (Japan): Kimiya Yui

Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Alexey Zubritskiy, Oleg Platonov

NASA Flight Engineers: Jonny Kim, Zena Cardman, Mike Fincke

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.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center/J. Kim

Capture Date: Aug. 25, 2025

Duration: 1 minute, 18 seconds

Release Date: Sept. 16, 2025

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