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we are going to resume approach of final docking. it looks like in about three meters, they are going to get a bit more favorable lighting conditions, which is good news. as you heard, the crew handoff point, meaning if there was a scenario, it would be done autonomously by dragon. yes, you mentioned earlier the soft capture ring makes initial contact. once it does make initial contact, it effectively pulls the dragon into place for the hard capture hooks to drive into place. there are 12 of them in total and they are actually f astened around a circle, a little bit wider than the soft capture ring that we just saw on the screen. those 12 hooks will effectively keep dragon in place. > here is another big big loop. you can commence. thanks. we are in orbital nighttime now. you can see the firing of the engine. this is, again there are 16 of them on the dragon and they will continue to of micro-adjustments that are necessary. there are green and red navigatio ....
is about to arrive at the international space station. live nasa coverage on c-span. the crew had called out during their approach. just to make sure that everything is here during the final approach. there is a view of dragon. this will make initial contact with the international space station. ground will be commending resume shortly. retreat and breakup are not permitted. one final note, we do anticipate that we have some less than favorable lighting conditions. i think we will be happy with this. spacex copies. we will be resuming immediately. we are going to resume an approach for final docking. it looks like at three meters they will get a bit more favorable lighting conditions. if there were an abort scenario, it would need to be done autonomously by dragon. that soft capture makes initial contact. once it does, effectively pulls the dragon into place for the hard capture hooks to drive into place. there are 12 of them in total. they are fastened around t ....
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