SpaceX CRS-31 Dragon Spacecraft Docks With Space Station

SpaceX's CRS-31 Dragon spacecraft is scheduled docked with the International Space Station.  Broadcast courtesy: NASA

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00:00Dragon has 12 hooks, two sets of six hooks that will then engage for a hard capture.

00:17This docking mechanism ensures the interface is flush and allows the first set of six hooks

00:23followed by the second set of six hooks.

00:25This takes approximately 13 minutes.

00:54And there on your screen you see NASA astronaut Nick Hague in the red shirt and NASA astronaut

01:00Butch Willmore in the blue shirt towards the back of the screen.

01:04They are currently in the laboratory portion of the International Space Station as they

01:09continue to monitor the approach of the Dragon cargo spacecraft, which is less than seven

01:16meters away from docking to the International Space Station this morning.

01:39We are at five meters and nominal at this point.

01:43And we are approaching the crew handoff point in less than 30 seconds.

02:09And there you heard the call out for the crew handoff point.

02:21We are less than two meters away from being perfectly aligned and docking to the International

02:26Space Station.

02:39We are standing by currently for contact and capture.

03:03And there you heard it, contact and capture.

03:06Docking took place this morning at 8.52 a.m. central time, 9.52 a.m. eastern as the space

03:13station was flying over southeast Russia.