SpaceX Dragon Freedom Carrying Ax-3 Astronauts Docks With Space Station

SpaceX Dragon Freedom on Ax-3 mission, launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Jan. 18 kicking off a roughly 36-hour orbital pursuit. Freedom caught up and docked at the forward port on the station's Harmony module on Jan. 20 at 1042 UTC, as the two spacecraft sailed 421.65 kilometers above the South Pacific. Ax-3 is SpaceX's third private human spaceflight for the company Axiom Space, which has flown nine people to the station since since 2022.