Watch SpaceX Dragon carrying private Ax-2 astronauts dock with the space station Monday morning

Docking is scheduled to occur at 9:24 a.m. ET on Monday (May 22).

, the Houston-based company operating the mission. Businessman and paying customer John Shoffner serves as pilot, and Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, two members of Saudi Arabia’s inaugural astronaut class, are Ax-2 mission specialists. AlQarni and Barnawi will be the first Saudis to visit the ISS, and Barnawi is the first woman from the kingdom ever to reach space.

Whitson has already spent more time in space than any other American astronaut, and with Ax-2 becomes the first woman to command a private spaceflight. The Ax-2 crew will join the seven members of the current Expedition 69 aboard the ISS. After getting acclimated to the environment in low Earth orbit, the crew has a busy docket of research investigations, science experiments and educational outreach to occupy their time over the eight-day mission.

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