German material scientist Matthias Maurer has become the 600th astronaut to enter the aerospace in the six decades' history of human beings' travel to the other world.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance, carrying Maurer and three other members of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission, docked to the International Space Station at 6:32 p.m. ET Thursday, while the spacecraft was flying 260 miles above the eastern Caribbean Sea.
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