Moscow. October 6. INTERFAX.RU – SpaceX's Crew Dragon 3 manned spacecraft, which launches into orbit on October 30, will have to dock automatically with the International Space Station in 24 hours, NASA reported on Wednesday.
“The docking will take place on Sunday, October 31 at 00:36 US East Coast time (07:36 Moscow time),” Steve Stich, NASA Commercial Flight Program Manager, said at a press conference on the launch of the spacecraft.
The crew of Crew Dragon 3 includes NASA astronauts Raja Chari (spacecraft commander), Thomas Marshburn and Keila Barron, as well as European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Matthias Maurer from Germany.
They will have to change to the ISS the crew of the Crew Dragon 2, which arrived at the station on April 24. These are NASA astronauts Megan MacArthur and Shane Kimbrough, ESA astronaut Tom Peske and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide. They will leave the station in early November.
The launch of the crewed spacecraft Crew Dragon 3 using SpaceX's heavy Falcon 9 launch vehicle is scheduled for October 30 at 02:43 US Eastern Time (09:43 GMT) from the LC-39A launch pad at the Cape Canaveral Cosmodrome in Florida. It is planned that the crew will stay on the ISS for six months.
He will work at the station together with Roscosmos cosmonauts Pyotr Dubrov, Anton Shkaplerov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hai.
The Crew Dragon reusable manned spacecraft have already completed two regular flights to the ISS under SpaceX's contract with NASA.
