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The Crew Dragon capsule appointment with the station less than 16 hours after the astronauts were launched from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida, also marked one of Elon Musk SpaceX’s fastest flights to the ISS from disembarkation to the dock, a NASA show commentators said. The fully automated connection took place at approximately 7:37 p.m. EDT (2337 GMT) while the Crew Dragon capsule called Freedom and the space station flew about 420 kilometers over the central Pacific Ocean, according to NASA. The Freedom crew consists of three American NASA astronauts – flight commander Kjell Lindgren, 49, mission pilot Bob Hines, 47, and mission specialist Jessica Watkins, 33 – as well as 45-year-old Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti , of the European Space Agency (ESA). .
