Members of the SpaceX Crew Dragon are now settling into the International Space Station -- their home and workplace for the next six months.
Their arrival made history. It's the first time a privately-owned vessel has made the trip. The four-person crew is now ready to get to work on the orbiting lab.
SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule has successfully docked with the International Space Station. Four astronauts, including Japan's Noguchi Soichi, are on board the spacecraft.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft is expected to soon dock with the International Space Station with four astronauts on board. It's the world's first operational mission of a privately-developed space vehicle.
The team, led by Commander Michael Hopkins, consists of two other Americans and Japanese astronaut Noguchi Soichi. They will stay at the ISS for about six months to conduct scientific experiments and other missions.
The US space agency NASA is set to launch the first privately developed spacecraft, Crew Dragon.
The craft is scheduled to blast off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at around 7:30 p.m. US Eastern Time on Sunday.
Four astronauts have arrived at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the southern US state of Florida for the launch of a manned private-sector spacecraft scheduled for next weekend.
The astronauts arrived on Sunday from the Johnson Space Center in Texas, where they trained for the mission.
US space agency NASA has rescheduled the launch of the manned spacecraft Crew Dragon to November 14.
The first operational flight of the privately-developed space capsule was initially scheduled for October 31.
Dozens of Indonesian crewmembers of a cruise ship stricken with the coronavirus have left Japan for their home country after testing negative for the virus.
On Sunday, 44 Indonesians disembarked from the Costa Atlantica now moored at a shipyard in Japan's western prefecture of Nagasaki. They later boarded a plane bound for the Indonesian capital, Jakarta.
Officials in Nagasaki Prefecture dealing with a coronavirus outbreak on a cruise ship docked there are working to send crew members who tested negative back to their home countries.
The Italian-registered Costa Atlantica is at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard for repairs. Of the 623 crew members, 148 were confirmed to have the virus as of Saturday.
Officials in Nagasaki Prefecture, western Japan, plan to carry out coronavirus tests on all the crew members of a cruise ship docked at the port.
The Italian-registered Costa Atlantica is at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard for repairs. Of the 623 crew members, 61 who showed symptoms were tested, and 34 were confirmed to have the virus.
Crew members aboard the quarantined ship docked near Tokyo began disembarking Thursday. Those without symptoms will be quarantined and undergo medical checkups for 14 days.
It will take about 3 days for the approximately 240 crew members to disembark. Most of them are non-Japanese. They will leave Japan after the two-week period if they test negative.
Crew members aboard the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked near Tokyo finally began disembarking on Thursday.
Those without symptoms will be quarantined and undergo medical checkups for 14 days.
Japan's health ministry says crew members who tested negative for the new coronavirus have begun disembarking from the Diamond Princess cruise ship docked at Yokohama Port, near Tokyo.
The crew members were transferred to a government-designated facility in Saitama Prefecture on Thursday. Officials say it will take several days before all 240 crew members leave the ship.
Passengers and crew on a quarantined cruise ship at Yokohama Port in Japan are to start disembarking soon if they are not infected with the new coronavirus.
Japan's health ministry plans to test all remaining passengers and crew on the Diamond Princess for the virus. They are to disembark starting on Wednesday if the results are negative and they show no symptoms.
Japan's health ministry appears set to launch studies into how to prevent crew on board a cruise ship hit by the coronavirus outbreak from catching the virus.
The move comes as 20 crew members of the quarantined Diamond Princess have tested positive for the virus.