The flight is the first mission to travel to the space station as part of a purely commercial venture. The commercial crew mission, managed by a Houston-based company named Axiom Space, is slated to last 10 or 11 days. The automated docking capped a 21-hour flight to the station since SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. EDT (1229 GMT) Saturday, nearly 45 minutes later than scheduled due to a video problem on the space station. The commercial spacecraft built and owned by SpaceX docked with the Harmony module at 8:29 a.m. Credit: NASA TV / Spaceflight NowĪ SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked at the International Space Station on Saturday with four private astronauts, beginning a planned stay of at least eight days - and maybe longer - while becoming the first mission with an all-commercial crew to visit the orbiting research complex. SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavour spacecraft approaches the International Space Station for docking Saturday.
