Final frontier's golden spike

Source: collectSPACE

May 26, 2012 / 6:10 p.m. CT (2310 GMT) : Don Pettit, who became the first to enter the Dragon on Saturday, compared the arrival of the private cargo spacecraft at the International Space Station to the golden spike that was used ...
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BC Company Becomes First Official Producer and Distributor of Replica SpaceX Spacecraft

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Space X is a great company to work with and we are very happy for their success this morning as they ushered in a new era of space exploration. Less than an hour after Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) ma ...
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[Video] ISS Astronauts Climb Aboard the SpaceX Dragon Capsule

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The main purpose of the flight was to demonstrate that the Dragon capsule and the Falcon 9 rocket that delivered it were capable of reaching the station. SpaceX plans to begin regular cargo missions this year ...
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Astronauts enter world's first private supply ship

Source: Tampa Bay Online

Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship. NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, the first one inside the docked capsule, said the Dragon looks like i ...
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SpaceX: Space Station crew likes what it sees in new transport vehicle

Source: Christian Science Monitor

The crew of the International Space Station got its first look at the inside of its newest visitor – Space Exploration Technologies Corporation's Dragon cargo ship – Saturday morning and pronounced it a keeper ...
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Remains of San Pedro woman on SpaceX rocket

Source: Fresno Bee

SAN PEDRO, Calif. -- When "Star Trek" fan Allyson Genest requested that her cremated remains be sent into space, she never imagined that her ashes would share the same rocket as those of James Doohan, who played Scotty on the iconic 1960s telev ...
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Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship

Source: ABC News

The hatch is open on the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station. "The smell inside smells like a brand new car," NASA astronaut Don Pettit said Saturday after floating insid ...
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Remains of San Pedro woman on SpaceX rocket

Source: Mercedes Sun-Star

SAN PEDRO, Calif. -- When "Star Trek" fan Allyson Genest requested that her cremated remains be sent into space, she never imagined that her ashes would share the same rocket as those of James Doohan, who played Scotty on the iconic 1960s t ...
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Astronauts: SpaceX Dragon Has That ‘New Car Smell’

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Like Tweet +1 Share Pin It Share A day after the unmanned SpaceX Dragon spacecraft berthed with the International Space Station and made aerospace history, NASA astronaut Donald Pettit was the first man inside the cargo-filled vessel. His first r ...
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