SpaceX Crew Dragon docks safely at the International Space Station for the first time

SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule arrives at the International Space Station for the first time on March 3, 2019 after launching from Kennedy Space Center. A SpaceX capsule that could be astronauts' next ride to orbit from the United States safely reached the International Space Station early Sunday, completing a flawless daylong voyage from Kennedy Space Center on its first test flight. The Crew Dragon eased into a docking port at 5:51 a.m., becoming the first privately designed and operated spacecraft capable of flying to people to visit the outpost. The station had not hosted a U.S. crew ship for nearly eight years, since Atlantis on NASA's final space shuttle mission in July 2011. Since then, only Russia's Soyuz has flown astronauts up and down.