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Watch the moment Dragon spacecraft with Shubhanshu Shukla and other crew members docked at the International Space Station.

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00:00Inside 10 meters, a little less now than 30 feet away, is all that separates Dragon Grace
00:10from the International Space Station.
00:11And when the hooks drive, the 12 hooks that are on the bulkhead there of the SpaceX Dragon
00:18will connect itself and create that hard mate, sealing itself to the orbiting laboratory.
00:23And once the pressure checks and seals will be done, then everything will be pressurized
00:27and ready to go.
00:28So, waypoint zero has been achieved, and now they're making their way on to waypoint one.
00:33But you heard earlier on the loops that they have received the go to proceed past waypoint
00:38one and head straight on to waypoint two, and that means they'll continue to swing up and
00:43above the International Space Station, and then what would have been a pause at the 220-meter
00:48mark, they'll continue to press forward and look to get to about waypoint two.
00:53And waypoint two's arrival will be just around the International Space Station.
00:57Approach zero has started and the trajectory has converged on waypoint one.
01:03Expect arrival at waypoint one at 10-09 Zulu.
01:09Time of about 5.18 a.m. Central time, 6.18 a.m. Eastern, and you mentioned the hatch opening,
01:18and then as well as the welcome remarks shortly to follow, hatch opening roughly about two hours
01:23or so after the initial contact and capture, and then when the hooks drive, the 12 hooks that are on the bulkhead
01:31there of the SpaceX Dragon will connect itself to the orbiting laboratory, and everything will be pressurized and ready to go.
01:43So waypoint zero has been achieved, and now they're making waypoint one.
01:48But you heard earlier on the loops that they have received the go to proceed past waypoint one and head straight on to waypoint two.
01:55And that means they'll continue to swing up and above the International Space Station.
02:00And then what would have been a pause at the 220-meter mark, they'll continue to press forward and look to get to about waypoint two.
02:07And waypoint two's arrival will be just right on the doorstep of the International Space Station, about 28 meters away.
02:17Dragon contact and soft capture complete.
02:22Zulu.
02:24I just happy.
02:26About 5.18 a.m. Central time, 6.18 a.m. Eastern, and you mentioned the hatch opening.
02:33Dragon Grace and the Axiom Mission 4 crew have arrived to the International Space Station at 5.31 a.m. Central time over the North Atlantic as the two orbiting around the Earth.
02:45Connecting with the soft capture ring, and now we'll begin the ring retraction to bring the two vehicles closer together.
02:56And then the twelve hooks, the two sets of six, will drive to form me hard night.

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