![]() “With the arrival of Dragon, the space station ties the record for most vehicles on station at one time – six,” say NASA officials. Credit: NASA TVĬygnus was launched to the ISS atop a ULA Atlas V barely two weeks earlier on March 22 – as I reported on and witnessed from the Kennedy Space Center press site. The Cygnus cargo craft with its circular solar arrays and the Soyuz TMA-19M spacecraft (bottom right) are also seen in this view. The SpaceX Dragon is seen shortly after it was mated to the Harmony module. The Orbital ATK Cygnus CRS-6 cargo freighter only just arrived on March 26 and is now installed at a neighboring docking port on the Unity module. In a historic first, the arrival of the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft marks the first time that two American cargo ships are simultaneously docked to the ISS. Credit: NASAĮxpedition 47 crew members Jeff Williams and Tim Kopra of NASA, Tim Peake of ESA (European Space Agency) and cosmonauts Yuri Malenchenko, Alexey Ovchinin and Oleg Skripochka of Roscosmos are currently living aboard the orbiting laboratory. Watch this NASA video compiling all the highlights of the arrival and mating of the SpaceX Dragon on Apcarrying the BEAM habitat module and 3.5 tons of science and supplies. ![]() ![]() EDT as the station flew 250 miles (400 km) over southern Algeria. ![]() The ship was finally bolted into place at 9:57 a.m. Final Approach for before an awesome capture by crewmate Credit: NASA/Tim controllers at Mission Control in Houston then issued commands to carefully guide the robotic arm holding the Dragon freighter to the Earth-facing port on the bottom side of the Harmony module for its month long stay at the space station. ![]()
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