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From the Liveblog of
Saturday, April 9, 2022
From the Liveblog of
Saturday, April 9, 2022
Eytan Stibbe enters International Space Station
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Israel’s Eytan Stibbe enters the International Space Station, on April 9, 2022. (Screenshot/SpaceX)
Four people including Israel’s Eytan Stibbe enter the International Space Station, after their capsule docked around two hours ago.
The Dragon capsule had paused its approach after a failure of a video feed needed for docking, but teams on the ground found a way to work around the issue.
It took nearly two hours before the team entered the orbiting lab after docking.
Stibbe, a former fighter pilot and the second-ever Israeli to go to space, is carrying some 35 experiments for companies and research institutions on the privately funded Rakia Mission to the orbiting lab.
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