Resilience: the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 💪
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience docked to the International Space Station (iss) at 11:01 p.m. EST Monday, successfully transporting nasa astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (jaxajp) astronaut Soichi Noguchi. The Crew-1 astronauts join the Expedition 64 crew of Commander Sergey Ryzhikov and Flight Engineer Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, both of the Russian space agency Roscosmos, and Flight Engineer Kate Rubins of NASA.
In this black and white infrared image, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft onboard is seen on the launch pad at Launch Complex 39A nasakennedy on Friday, Nov. 13, 2020.
Credit: NASA/Joel Kowsky
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