When did they do that? Was that carried in the Houston papers? I seem to have missed it on CBS News (</sarc>).
The buzz started around the first of the year...
Whats good about the Falcon (Dragon manned module) will be that it can dock to the US and ESA’s PMA docking ports...
The Soyuz’s can only dock to the Russian side of the ISS...
Ours is a manual lineup and dock, whereas the Russians have got a pretty good automatic system...
I assume, and have always wondered why we have not lowered ourselves to an automated system...
Mainly because the Shuttle, the Japanese HII and the other Euro-teams launch system are capable of aborting their approaches based upon human intuition and training to recognize very quickly a problem with any lineup or rate of closure, a little quicker than the Russian system...
At least that is what I once heard...