Latest astronaut crew of four welcomed aboard International Space Station
By Steve Gorman
(Reuters) – Four astronauts, three from NASA and one from the European Space Agency, arrived on the International Space Station on Thursday and docked their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule with the orbiting laboratory to begin a six-month science mission.
The rendezvous occurred 21 hours after the workers and its capsule had been launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Wednesday evening time, following a string of local weather delays that postponed the liftoff for each week and a half.
The docking occurred about 6:30 p.m. EST (2330 GMT) whereas the Crew Dragon vehicle, dubbed Endurance, and the home station had been flying about 260 miles (420 km) above {the japanese} Caribbean Sea, consistent with NASA.
The Endurance crew consists …