India, June 26 -- The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, carrying four-member crew as part of the fourth private astronaut mission to the International Space Station, has docked to the space-facing port of the space station's Harmony module at 6:31 a.m. ET on Thursday.
Four-member crew, led by veteran former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, flew to the orbiting laboratory on a new SpaceX Dragon spacecraft after the company's Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 2:31 a.m. ET on Wednesday.
Peggy Whitson, who is the director of human spaceflight at Axiom Space, is the commander of the commercial mission, while Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla is serving as pilot. The two mission specialists are European Space Agenc...