The hatch between the newly arrived SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and the
Harmony module of the International Space Station was opened by NASA
Astronaut Don Pettit at 5:53 am EDT as the station flew 253 miles above
Auckland, New Zealand.
The hatch opening begins four days of operations
to upload more than 1,000 pounds of cargo from the first commercial
spacecraft to visit the space station and reload it with experiments and
cargo for a return trip to Earth. It is scheduled for splashdown
several hundred miles west of California on May 31.
Wearing protective masks and goggles, as is customary for the opening of a hatch to any newly arrived vehicle at the station, Pettit entered the Dragon with Station Commander Oleg Kononenko.
The goggles and masks will be
removed once the station atmosphere has had a chance to mix air with the
air inside the Dragon itself. A crew news conference will air on NASA
TV at 11:25 a.m.
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