Watch SpaceX, NASA, and 2 astronauts perform an historic private spaceship docking live online

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• SpaceX on Saturday launched it's first crewed mission into space with the flight of NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken.
• The astronauts' Crew Dragon spaceship, which they named Endeavour once in orbit, spent the night catching up to the $150 billion International Space Station (ISS).
• The crew is performing a docking procedure that will fly them from about 400 meters below the ISS, up to 220 meters in front of it, and then in for a docking at roughly 10:39 a.m. ET.
• You can watch and listen in on the historic mission, called Demo-2, by watching NASA and SpaceX's joint broadcast on YouTube.
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After hurling two NASA astronauts into space for the first time, SpaceX is performing is attempting to dock the crew to the International Space Station (ISS).

If the operation is a success, it'll mark the first crewed docking of a privately developed spaceship.

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• SpaceX's Crew Dragon toilet is on the ceiling of the spaceship — and no one wants to talk about it

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