SpaceX, owned by Tesla Inc (NASDAQ:TSLA) CEO Elon Musk, took astronauts from NASA’s Crew 3 mission to the International Space Station on Wednesday, nearly a day after the mission launched.

What happened

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 capsule docked autonomously on the ISS at 6:32 p.m. ET, connecting four Crew 3 astronauts to three crew members aboard the space station, which orbits an average of 248 miles above Earth. Is. The space agency released a short clip of the moment the Crew 3 astronauts entered the space laboratory through the hatch. After a six-month stay, Dragon and Crew 3 astronauts will exit the space laboratory and return to Earth. Crew-3 is SpaceX’s third operational manned flight for NASA and the fifth manned space mission SpaceX has launched from May 2020.

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SpaceX and NASA are working on several projects, including a $2.9 billion contract to land on the moon. Musk dreams of colonizing Mars and has said in the past that he is “very confident” that SpaceX will land humans on Mars by 2026.