America's new astronaut capsule has successfully docked with the International Space Station (ISS) as part of its demonstration mission.

Axar.az reports citing BBC.

The Dragon vehicle, launched by California's SpaceX company on Saturday, made the attachment autonomously.

It is the latest in a series of tests the capsule must pass in order to get approval from Nasa to transport people.

All this particular mission is carrying is a test dummy and 90kg of supplies.

But if everything goes according to plan, astronauts could be launching in the Dragon as early as July.

The capsule's "soft capture" contact with the ISS occurred at 10:51 GMT, when the station was flying over ocean just north of New Zealand. A full and secure docking was confirmed about 10 minutes later.