Overview

• SpaceX released footage of the Dragon capsule docking that captured the outgoing ISS crew welcoming their replacements with jokes about cold drinks and warm meals.
• Commander Zena Cardman led her team of Michael Fincke, Kimiya Yui and Oleg Platonow through the hatch as they joined the station nearly 400 kilometers above Earth.
• Crew 11 will relieve the tenth expedition and initiate experiments that include lunar landing simulations, materials science and biological studies.
• Falcon 9’s reusable first-stage booster separated as planned and returned to Earth aboard a drone ship shortly after liftoff.
• The mission underscores NASA’s commercial crew strategy and the growing role of reusable spacecraft in maintaining continuous low Earth orbit operations.