Docking at the space station is expected on Saturday afternoon
18:17 Successful launch
18:20 Successful separation of the first stage
18:27 The first stage successfully landed on a rig in the ocean, the astronauts are already experiencing the weakening of gravity, and proved it with a toy teddy bear
18:31 The second stage disconnected after giving Dragon a push towards the space station, docking is expected tomorrow, Saturday around 15:15 Israel time
18:40 The Dragon capsule will autonomously perform several ignitions of the engines to reach the meeting with the space station. This task will last 20 hours. The astronauts will spend eight of them sleeping.
The mission commander is former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria (who now works at SpaceX) and the other passengers are Larry Connor, Mark Pathy and the Israeli Eitan Stiva. The four will live and work aboard the station for nine days and carry out scientific experiments and commercial projects. At the end of their mission, they will re-enter Endeavour, clear the docking hatch and parachute to a sea landing off the coast of Florida.
AX-1 Crew: Ten minutes after launch. Screenshot from Axiom broadcasts 
The launch of the Endeavor crew Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 launcher for the AX-1 private mission in which the Israeli Eitan Stiva also participates. Screenshot from Axiom's broadcast
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Explanations in Hebrew from the control center of Mission Rakie
16:45 During the inspection of the airlock, a malfunction was discovered that caused a leak, the technicians opened the door, locked it again and repeated the inspection. The test came out normal at 17:00, this should not interfere with the schedule.
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- 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
- NASA approves the private astronauts for the Axiom mission to the International Space Station, including Eitan Stiva
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With a name like that, woe betide you, you wouldn't "fly into space"