Eitan Stiva, the first Israeli on the International Space Station who also received an astronaut badge from the World Astronaut Association, said during the welcome ceremony held upon the arrival of the Ax-1 team at the International Space Station: "Welcome to the International Space Station! First time we have had the privilege of reporting from here in Hebrew, good luck to everyone and good luck to the sky !"
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17: 20 Update
The airlock opens, Steve and his friends enter the space station
17: 13 Update
The airlock between the spaceships opens. Soon the astronauts will leave for the space station
15:50
Docking done, now the AX-1 team members are about to enter the International Space Station
15: 30 Update
The ability to receive broadband transmissions back to the space station (depends on satellite links and ground antennas, which are not always available). Now SpaceX, the owners of the Dragon spacecraft, are transmitting the camera broadcasts through the NASA Space Center in Houston. Now you can also see images of the AX-1 Crew Dragon spacecraft from a close distance. Now the connection process will be renewed, which will still require time.
15: 00 Update
A video routing problem on the International Space Station has slowed the docking of the private SpaceX Ax-1 space mission to the International Space Station.
The station crew is unable to see video from the centerline camera of the Crew Dragon capsule carrying Ax-1 members, which is required to proceed with the docking that was scheduled for 14:45 p.m. The Crew Dragon capsule Endeavor is now 20 meters from the station and parked. She can stay in this position for about two hours. As mentioned, about two more hours after the connection, the team members from both sides will meet.
13: 00 Update
The Ax-1 astronauts in Dragon can see the video from their spacecraft's camera, as can the space station and SpaceX flight controllers on the ground. The problem appears to only affect the astronauts on the International Space Station at the moment.
Today at 14:45, the Dragon spacecraft will dock at the International Space Station. About two hours after the docking, with the comparison of the pressures between the spacecraft and the space station, at 16:35 the Ax-1 team and their son, the Israeli astronaut Eitan Stiva, will enter the International Space Station. There they will be welcomed by the seven astronauts staying at the station, in a traditional ceremony held when new astronauts enter the space station. The International Space Station commander, Thomas Marshburn, and the Ax-1 mission commander, Michael Lopez Alegria, will speak at the ceremony.
More of the topic in Hayadan:
- Successful launch of the Dragon spacecraft team on mission AX-1 including the Israeli Eitan Stiva (updates, photo gallery and broadcast recordings)
- Eitan Stiva will take wild seeds from the volcanic institute where his father worked, as a tribute to the institute's 100th anniversary celebrations
- Space mission experiments part 1: conducting remote tests and the effect of staying in space on the immune system
- Sky Task Experiments Part 2: Studies in the Brain
- Sky Mission Experiments Part 3: The rest of the medical experiments, space steak and the student experiments
