and just to point out it will be a few hours before like, following docking to the hatch opening. but right now, the crew is in their space suits because they have to wear their space suits when they re going through a dynamic phase of flight which includes, of course, the launch, but also this docking period. but shortly after the docking and pressurization is completed. they ll be able to stake off the space suits. get into comfortable clothes and open that hatch and get on that space station, something that the crew members have dreamed of sorry, rachel, yes, let s listen into what they re saying as they inch closer to the docking. still seeing good alignment.
to that docking, until it actually performs a sealed connection. then we ll be able to engage 12 hooks that perform the hard capture. six of those were actually engaged during the launch. and on the way to, orbit, they open up that you see there to deploy the nose cone. but 12 of those are now going to engage after the soft capture ring has retracted. after those 12 engage, we ll have a hard ring. they will start to connect to umbilicals that will provide hard line data and power to dragon through systems. and then we ll be able to get the docking complete call. and then it s onto some of the post docking operations. so for the crew inside of dragon, they ll be getting out of their suits. doing basic cabin configuration, as they get ready to open the
space ship endeavour, they do have the ability to take control of the manual docking, first with the soft docking and the hard docking and then the latches attach the spacecraft to the international space station. this is all done atautoautonomo so they can press ahead with the docking. boris, christi, we ll continue to bring you all the details and update as this mission proceeds. okay, rachel, we want to listen in to some of the conversations going on there at nasa. accelerating for docking. so, again, we re able to get that ground pass video. the teams here in houston, and confirmed dragon was in good alignment in that video from the ground site, the video on the left. dragon is continuing in towards
under three meters. soft docking, international docking. two meters. two meters, we heard the call crew s hands-off point. one meter. one meter to go. dragon spacex on the big loop soft capture complete. attenuation in progress. spacex endeavour copy all.
let s go back to rachel crane now. rachel, what did you make of what you just heard there? reporter: well, that was music to everyone s ears here on earth. but also particularly those in orbit, in that spacecraft and on the space station. that means they are proceeding forward as we heard, the spacecraft is moving towards the docking. they are really approaching at just a crawl at this point. so it s going to be a few more minutes until that docking takes place. but they were able to proceed forward, despite the fact that video link was not fixed. but they said they had enough eyes and data points on the spacecraft that they felt it was safe to proceed forward. as i pointed out before, that video link was getting transmitted here to mission control. it was just the international space station that wasn t getting that feed. but, again, this is the moment that we ve all been waiting for. and that crew in particular has been waiting for.