The capsule, carrying NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, reached the station around 15 minutes ahead of schedule at about 10:16 a.m. ET.
"Upon splashdown just off Florida's Atlantic Coast, Dragon and the astronauts will be quickly recovered by SpaceX's Go Navigator recovery vessel and returned to Cape Canaveral," the SpaceX website says.
After liftoff on Saturday, billionaire Musk told reporters the capsule's return will be more dangerous than its launch in some ways. But he added that the launch was"hopefully the first step on a journey toward a civilization on Mars." The mission comes as the U.S. copes with two crises simultaneously—with more than 100,000 people dead amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic and a week of growing unrest over the death of George Floyd, a black man, in police custody, sparking violent clashes between police and protesters across the country.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the manned Crew Dragon spacecraft attached takes off from launch pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center on May 30, 2020 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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