Private astronauts dock and then seriously crowd onto the space station

The orbiting laboratory is full.

The largest orbiting laboratory in the sky just got a lot more crowded.

The Axiom Space mission, the first all-private astronaut expedition to the International Space Station, made its arrival Saturday morning. While the ISS was flying 250 miles smack-dab above the Atlantic Ocean, private astronauts Michael Lopez-Alegria, Larry Connor, Eytan Stibbe, and Mark Pathy successfully docked the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and opened the hatch at 10:13 a.m. ET.