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NASA Television and the agency\u2019s\u00a0<\/span><\/span>website<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>\u00a0are providing<\/span><\/span>\u00a0live continuous coverage of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-3 mission carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on their way to the\u00a0<\/span><\/span>International Space Station<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/span>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, began the final phase of its approach to the station at 5:02 p.m.\u00a0EST\u00a0Wednesday and is scheduled to dock at about 6:32 p.m. Crew Dragon is designed to dock autonomously, but the crew\u00a0aboard the spacecraft and the space station will monitor the performance of the spacecraft as it approaches and docks to the forward port of the station\u2019s Harmony module.<\/span><\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n The hatch opening now is approximately at 8:10 p.m. and the welcome ceremony is at approximately 8:45 p.m. with times subject to change. <\/span><\/p>\n NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-3 mission lifted\u00a0off at 9:03 p.m. on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the agency\u2019s third crew rotation mission.<\/span><\/p>\n More details about the mission and\u00a0NASA\u2019s commercial crew program can be found by following the\u00a0commercial crew blog<\/span><\/a>,\u00a0@commercial_crew<\/span><\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0commercial crew on Facebook<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following \u202f@space_station<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u202fand\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/span><\/a>\u202f\u00a0on Twitter as well as the \u202fISS Facebook<\/span><\/a>\u202f and \u202fISS Instagram<\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u202faccounts.<\/span><\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Norah Moran <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA Television and the agency\u2019s\u00a0website\u00a0are providing\u00a0live continuous coverage of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-3 mission carrying NASA astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer on their way to the\u00a0International Space Station.\u00a0\u00a0 The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, began the final phase of its approach to the station at 5:02 p.m.\u00a0EST\u00a0Wednesday and is \u2026 Continue reading