The American ship Crew Dragon organization SpaceX with NASA astronauts in the cabin docked to the International space station.
"Docking confirmed, it took place at 10: 17 East coast time (17: eleven GMT)," said the broadcaster, adding that ISS at the time was over Northern China and Mongolia.
Automatic Docking ended at 17: 30 (GMT). Is then required to open the hatch connecting the airlock, and After stabilizing the pressure, the astronauts Crew Dragon will be able to go to the ISS.
Crew Dragon started from the cosmodrome on Cape Canaveral last night. The launch was the 1st in the history of manned flight, which made a private Firm.
in addition, USA for the first time in nine years, on their own sent people into space: from 2011, when out of operation brought the transport of the Space Shuttle program, the astronauts flying to the ISS on Russian Soyuz spacecraft.
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