Axiom Space Astronauts Traveling Aboard SpaceX Dragon Freedom, Arrive At The Space Station

Aboard Freedom were four private Ax-2 astronauts Peggy Whitson, John Shoffner, and Saudi Arabian astronauts Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi. They're welcomed onto the space station by 7 astronauts. Freedom docked with the space station at 1312 UTC Monday, after liftoff from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida on Sunday. According to SpaceX, this was the fastest docking ever at 15 hours 45 minutes from liftoff from earth to soft capture by the space station, beating previous record by 9 minutes