A Falcon 9 lifted off at 11:10 a.m. EDT on Oct. 1 from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA astronauts Jessica Watkins and Luke Delaney, CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk and Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergey Teteryatnikov toward the International Space Station aboard Dragon Grace. NASA said the spacecraft reached orbit, separated from the second stage and opened its nosecone, with docking at Harmony's space-facing port targeted for 7 p.m. EDT as the fastest launch-to-docking in ISS history. Space.com reported booster B1101 landed at Landing Zone 40 about 7 minutes 40 seconds after liftoff on its third flight; docking had not occurred at the time of this report.
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