{"id":147807,"date":"2022-10-08T15:27:07","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-crew-5-astronauts-dock-to-the-space-station"},"modified":"2022-10-08T15:27:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T20:27:07","slug":"the-crew-5-astronauts-dock-to-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-crew-5-astronauts-dock-to-the-space-station","title":{"rendered":"The Crew-5 Astronauts Dock to the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-crew-5-astronauts-dock-to-the-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Crew-5 includes a Russian astronaut and the first Native American woman in space.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s latest crewed launch has reached the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-5 astronaut mission launched at noon local time.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX used a Falcon 9 rocket to lift a crew of four astronauts \u2014 including a Russian astronaut and the first Native American woman to go to space \u2014 aboard Crew Dragon capsule Endurance. They docked and are now aboard the ISS after a 29-hour flight, as per a NASA report.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX Crew-5\u2019s international crew.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina arrived at the International Space Station Thursday Oct. 6, as the SpaceX Dragon Endurance docked to the complex at 5:01 p.m. EDT while the spacecraft were flying 258 miles above the west coast of Africa.<\/p>\n<p>Following Dragon\u2019s link up to the Harmony module, the crew aboard Dragon Endurance and the space station will begin conducting standard leak checks and pressurization between the spacecraft in preparation for hatch opening scheduled for 6:42 p.m.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/the-crew-5-astronauts-dock-to-the-space-station\">Continue reading \u201cThe Crew-5 Astronauts Dock to the Space Station\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Crew-5 includes a Russian astronaut and the first Native American woman in space. SpaceX\u2019s latest crewed launch has reached the International Space Station (ISS). The Crew-5 astronaut mission launched at noon local time. SpaceX used a Falcon 9 rocket to lift a crew of four astronauts \u2014 including a Russian astronaut and the first Native [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}