Early Saturday morning, at 3:27 AM EDT, the Crew Dragon Endurance (C210) launched to the ISS.

We had a picture perfect launch on Saturday morning, with another gorgeous night launch! As a reminder, this marks SpaceX’s 11th crewed Dragon launch, 143rd consecutive first-stage landing (this one a RTLS landing at LZ-1, the first time a crewed mission has had its booster return to the Cape!), and kicked off a scheduled 180-day mission onboard the International Space Station.

Dragon docked with Station at 9:27 AM EDT on the following day, an approximately 30-hour trip to the space station.

Crew-7 carries the standard complement of four crew, this time from four different countries:

Commander Jasmin Moghbelli, NASA (USA), on her first mission to space. One of the first members of Astronaut Class 22 to fly to space, she’s the fourth Dragon commander (after Crew-3 and -5, and Inspiration-4) to be flying her first space mission in the commander’s chair.

Andres Mogensen, ESA (DEN), is the first European to pilot any spacecraft, be it Soviet/Russian or American. This is his second spaceflight, following a short mission as a Soyuz visiting engineer in September 2015 (Arrived Soyuz TMA-18M, September 1st/Departed September 11th, Soyuz TMA-16M). He will also be serving as the Expedition 70 Commander onboard Station following an approximately 3-month tour as a part of Expedition 69. (nice.)

Satoshi Furukawa, JAXA (Japan), is one of two mission specialists onboard Crew-7. This is his second spaceflight, having previously been the only member of Crew-7 to do a long-term mission onboard Station as a part of Expedition 28/29.

Konstantin Borisov, ROSCOSMOS/????????? (Russia/??????) is serving as Mission Specialist-2 for the Crew-7 mission. It’s his first trip to space, having been selected in Russia’s 2018 class of cosmonauts.

As mentioned previously, Dragon docked with Station on Sunday morning (EDT), and has been on station since! Welcome to space (albeit a few days late), Crew-7!

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