The crew aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule sent to retrieve two astronauts stranded in space for nine months were greeted by an ‘alien‘ as they docked at theΒ International Space StationΒ (ISS).
NASA astronaut Nick Hague, who was already aboard the ISS, gave the incoming crew an extraterrestrial welcome by donning an alien mask for their arrival.
The SpaceX Dragon crew successfully reached the station after taking off from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
Their mission was to deliver four new astronauts to the ISS and bring home stranded crew member Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore.
Wilmore swung open the space station’s hatch and then rang the ship’s bell as the new arrivals floated in one by one and were greeted with hugs and handshakes.
“It was a wonderful day. Great to see our friends arrive,” Williams told Mission Control after their arrival.
SpaceX crew has docked in the International Space Station to rescue the stranded astronauts pic.twitter.com/4uOkKu1GOI
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