SpaceX's Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts docked with the International Space Station at 5:01 am PST on Tuesday during NASA's first crewed mission using a privately-built space capsule.
The Falcon 9 rocket that brought the Crew Dragon capsule, nicknamed Resilience, to Earth orbit, had taken off 27 hours earlier from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
The three Americans and the Japanese joined the two Russians and the American on site who welcomed them with joy to continue the research work in space.
The four new arrivals will stay six months in the station.