{"id":88337,"date":"2019-03-03T11:42:21","date_gmt":"2019-03-03T19:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/watch-spacexs-crew-dragon-dock-autonomously-with-the-iss"},"modified":"2019-03-03T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2019-03-03T19:42:21","slug":"watch-spacexs-crew-dragon-dock-autonomously-with-the-iss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/watch-spacexs-crew-dragon-dock-autonomously-with-the-iss","title":{"rendered":"Watch SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon Dock Autonomously With the ISS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/watch-spacexs-crew-dragon-dock-autonomously-with-the-iss2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s yet another historic moment for the Crew Dragon mission as the docking procedure is quite different this time when compared to previous Dragon missions: \u201cDragon was basically hovering under the ISS,\u201d said Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of mission assurance at SpaceX during a pre-launch briefing on Thursday. \u201cYou can see how it moves back and forth and then the [Canadarm] takes it to a berthing bay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In contrast, the Crew Dragon\u2019s docking system is active, he said: \u201cit will plant itself in front of the station and use a docking port on its own, no docking arm required.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Five days from now, Crew Dragon will undock and makes its long way back to Earth. This time around, it will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean \u2014 previous (cargo) Dragon missions have touched down in the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-dock-iss\/\">https:\/\/futurism.com\/spacex-crew-dragon-dock-iss\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s yet another historic moment for the Crew Dragon mission as the docking procedure is quite different this time when compared to previous Dragon missions: \u201cDragon was basically hovering under the ISS,\u201d said Hans Koenigsmann, vice president of mission assurance at SpaceX during a pre-launch briefing on Thursday. \u201cYou can see how it moves back [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88337","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\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88337"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88337\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}