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A SpaceX Dragon capsule carrying fee first private space crew just docked with the ISS. The four people inside the capsule launch from Kennedy Space Center and lowered on Friday morning without any major hiccups. The Dragon capsule ran into a video routing problem before the docking sequence started, which caused a 45-minute delay as the capsule stayed roughly 20 meters away from the International Space Station. While SpaceX was fixing the issue.
The four crew members include commander and former NASA astronaut Michael López-Alegría, businessmen Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy. The crew members will spend 8 days on the space station as they conduct science experiments, along with outreach and commercial activities.
Axiom space all civilian missions, the AX1 is the first of a lot of private ISS missions the company plans to launch in the future. They’re also going to be building the first commercial module on the space station, as well as modular houses, a Sports Arena, and a film studio.
