(Update: Docking confirmed) SpaceX Endeavour spacecraft with Crew-6 astronauts arrives at space station

The SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft carrying NASA's Crew-6 mission astronauts has arrived at the Internation Space Station, following a launch on Thursday from Launch Complex 39A at the agency's Kennedy Space Center in Florida

The Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, along with United Arab Emirates (UAE) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, is scheduled to dock autonomously at approx. 12:43 a.m.

Coverage of docking and hatch opening will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency's website.

LIVE: The Dragon Endeavour spacecraft for NASA's @SpaceX #Crew6 mission arrives at the @Space_Station. Docking is set for approximately 12:43am ET (0543 UTC). https://t.co/4UkHflcmLx

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Crew-6 astronauts will join Expedition 68, consisting of NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, and Josh Cassada, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina, and will conduct hundreds of new scientific research during their six-month stay aboard the orbital laboratory.

"Crew-6 will be busy aboard the International Space Station, conducting over 200 experiments that will help us to prepare for missions to the Moon, Mars, and beyond, as well as improve life here on Earth. We look forward to seeing all that they accomplish," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson.

Crew-6 is NASA's sixth commercial crew rotation mission with SpaceX aboard the orbital laboratory.

Update 1

The Dragon Endeavour docked to the station's Harmony module at 1:40 a.m. EST. The docking was delayed by almost an hour as mission teams completed troubleshooting of a faulty docking hook sensor on the spacecraft. The mission teams verified that all of the docking hooks were in the proper configuration, and SpaceX developed a software override for the faulty sensor that allowed the docking process to successfully continue, NASA said in its latest update.