Pubblicato in data 03/mar/2013
The unmanned SpaceX Dragon
commercial space capsule packed with precious cargo successfully linked
up with the International Space Station early Sunday (March 3), arriving
one day late due to a temporary thruster glitch. The Dragon cargo
capsule, built by the private spaceflight company SpaceX, docked with
the space station at 8:56
a.m. EST (1356) as the two spacecraft soared 253 miles (407 kilometers)
over the Arabian Sea. NASA flight controllers performed the docking
remotely by commanding the space station's Canadian-built robotic arm,
which had latched onto the Dragon capsule three hours earlier, to attach
the capsule to a docking port. "The Dragon is ours! Maneuvering it now
on Canadarm2 to a docking port, will open hatches once secure," station
astronaut Chris Hadfield of Canada wrote in a Twitter post. "Look
forward to new smells. Great!"
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