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From NASA's Mission Updates:

> The Crew Dragon arrived at the station’s Harmony port, docking at 10:16 a.m. EDT while the spacecraft were flying about 262 miles above the northern border of China and Mongolia.

It's hard for me to wrap my brain around this. They seem so far away but 262 miles above earth is about the distance from NYC to DC which doesn't seem far at all.



There is a fantastic what if that talks about this.

https://what-if.xkcd.com/58/


You’re right. That was fantastic. Hadn’t seen that one before. Thank you.




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