NASA shared a picture of the Crew Dragon at the International Space Station, just a few days before the Crew 3 astronauts return to Earth.

A SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft docked at the ISS.
Crew Dragon Endurance docked at the International Space Station about 250 miles above Earth. NASA

The crew ship is shown from a window on the Crew Dragon capsule, which brought NASA's first-ever paying astronauts to the International Space Station earlier this month.

The space station is getting ready for a busy few days.

The crew will return to Earth later this month with the help of the European Space Agency.

NASA's fee-paying visitors who arrived at the International Space Station on April 9 will be eliminated on Saturday. The Ax-1 mission was supposed to last 10 days but has been extended by five days because of poor conditions at the splashdown site off the coast of Florida.

The Crew-4 astronauts are expected to arrive at the International Space Station in the middle of next week.

In a special Q&A session with reporters on Earth, the five astronauts talked about the highlights of their six-month stay aboard the outpost.

During their time in space, the four astronauts had a hand in hundreds of experiments and technology demonstrations and also participated in spacewalks.

NASA's busy scheduling period at the International Space Station has been made possible by the successful development of its space transportation hardware that first flew astronauts in a successful test flight in the summer of 2020.

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