REUTERS/Pierre DuCharme
Posted on 05/28/2012 6:39:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon cargo ship on Friday, the first privately owned vehicle to reach the orbital outpost.
The SpaceX Falcon 9 test rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, May 22, 2012. The unmanned rocket owned by privately held Space Exploration Technologies blasted off from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday for a mission designed to be the first commercial flight to the International Space Station. The 178-foot (54-meter) tall Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at 3:44 a.m. (0744 GMT) from a refurbished launch pad just south of where NASA launched its now-retired space shuttles.
Using the station's 58-foot long (17.7-meter) robotic crane, NASA astronaut Don Pettit snared Dragon at 9:56 a.m. EDT (1356 GMT) as the two spacecraft soared 250 miles over northwest Australia at 17,500 mph.
"It looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail," Pettit radioed to NASA Mission Control in Houston.
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REUTERS/Pierre DuCharme
[The Daily Star]
Thanks NM, alas, it’s just a 403 graphic here.
http://www.starfleet-museum.org/
http://www.starfleet-museum.org/bison-liveries.jpg
Bummer. It comes up fine here but I guess it does not work for everyone.
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