Crew Dragon with Roscosmos cosmonaut aboard docks to ISS

WASHINGTON. March 3 (Interfax) - The SpaceX company's Crew Dragon manned spacecraft with three astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut on board, which blasted off on Thursday, successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on Friday, NASA said.

The Crew Dragon docked to the station's Harmony U.S. segment in automatic mode at 1:40 a.m. EST.

The international crew travelling aboard the Crew Dragon-6 consists of NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, the United Arab Emirates' astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Fedyayev. They are expected to stay aboard the ISS for six months.

The Crew Dragon was launched with the help of the SpaceX company's Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Launch Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center at 00:34 a.m. EST. It is already the fourth flight of this reusable spacecraft.