she's live for us from cape knapp real, florida.d the iss over the next week or so? >> reporter: well, boris and christi, this moment is not only years in the making, but at least when it comes to this journey, 20 hours in the making. this is that critical moment when spaceship endeavor letter dock at the international space station. there will be a series of -- there's first a soft docking and then hard docking when latches attack to the craft of the international space station. once that happens, it will take a few hours before the hatch is open and this crew of four private astronauts enters into the international space station, making the total number of crew members on station right now 11. so it's going to be pretty crowded up there. while they're up there for these eight days on the station, these four private astronauts will be doing about 25 experiments, testing, looking into aging, brain health, cardiac health. there's one experiment about hollow teleportation, kind of a fancy way to describe a two-way video dialogue. they