SpaceX Docks with ISS

It was a historic moment for SpaceX, which became the first private corporation to launch people into orbit.  It completed its first Phase, when its Dragon spacecraft successfully docked with International Space Station, the orbiting laboratory a few minutes earlier than planned. Before opening the hatch and entering the station, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will conduct a series of pressure and leak checks to ensure their safety. Then they will join fellow NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy and two Russian cosmonauts aboard the station. The docking was a delicate and dangerous part of the mission. The spacecraft chased down the space station, traveling in orbit at 17,500 M.P.H., but then approached very slowly in a series of carefully choreographed manoeuvres.