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Good morning from NASA's
Johnson Space Center,

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this is Mission Control,
Houston.

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The International Space
Station flight control room here

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in Houston overseeing all

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of the systems aboard the
International Space Station

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and also following
along with complete

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and continuous communications
links

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with the Space Exploration
Technologies headquarters

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in Hawthorne, Calif., where
both teams are monitoring all

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activities aboard the first
commercial visiting cargo

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vehicle to the International
Space Station.

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Today is Thursday,
May 24, a historic day

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in human spaceflight and
not only human spaceflight

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but obviously spaceflight
in general

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with this first commercial
spacecraft on its way

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to the International Space
Station earlier Thursday

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performing a series
of intricate maneuvers

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to prove the capabilities of
the spacecraft to rendezvous

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with the station and
then intentionally abort

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that rendezvous.

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Also establishing communications
links with the crew

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so that the crew could
send commands directly

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to the spacecraft, and
all of that went very well

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with the Dragon spacecraft
approaching the International

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Space Station at
the closest point

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of about 1.5 statute miles just
before 6:30 a.m. Central time,

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7:30 Eastern time.

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And that spacecraft now is
on a wide loop trajectory

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around the station to set up
for Friday's official rendezvous

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and capture, followed by
berthing to the nadir port

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on the station's Harmony module.

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The crew complement on board the
International Space Station made

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up of six crew members now.

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Expedition 31, as it's
known, is being led

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by Commander Oleg Kononenko.

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His two crew members
with which he arrived

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at the International
Space Station back

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in December are Andre
Kuipers from the Netherlands

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and U.S. astronaut Don Pettit.

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Those three gentlemen are
enjoying their 156th day

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in space today, 154 of those
aboard the International

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Space Station.

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The three newest crew members
that now officially are members

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of the Expedition 31
joined Kononenko, Kuipers

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and Pettit nine days ago
following their launch

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on a Soyuz on May 14 are
Gennady Padalka, Sergei Revin -

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both from Russia - and
U.S. astronaut Joe Acaba.

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Those three are on their
11th day in space now,

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nine of those now aboard the
International Space Station.

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So, all six crew members
have spent a good deal

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of their day following along
with the Dragon rendezvous

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and approach activities
throughout the morning hours

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following their wakeup
at 1 a.m. Central time.

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The six crew members will go
to bed at 4:30 this afternoon.

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In between, the newest
crew members joined

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by Commander Oleg Kononenko will
perform some emergency drills

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on board to familiarize
themselves with some

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of the emergency procedures
aboard the International Space

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Station for the newest
crew members.

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And in the meantime Pettit
and Kuipers spent some time

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with the station's robotic arm,

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putting it in the
proper position

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to support tomorrow's grapple
activities with Dragon,

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and they've also supported
the centerline camera checkout

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for that Dragon approach
and berthing as well.

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So a busy day for the six crew
members of Expedition 31 as well

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as those flight controllers
supporting activities

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around the clock from
here in mission control