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. The craft made aerospace history F ...
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SpaceX Dragon team opens the hatch, to spend Memorial Day with more cargo hauling than barbecues

Source: Engadget

SpaceX's Dragon docked with the International Space Station on Friday, but if you think the involved crew is spending the US long weekend experimenting with how well grills prepare burgers in low gravity (hint: not very), you're in for a bit ...
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Destroying the Internet, Dragon Capsule in Space, Execs on the Run and More... [The Best Stories Of The Week]

Source: Gizmodo

This week was a busy week! Whether it's Facebook's stock concerns, the real story of the McAfee executive on the run, Space X's Dragon Capsule making it to the ISS or a hypothetical look at how to destroy the internet, there's no sh ...
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Shrinking Arctic Ice May Cause Mercury Poisoning

Source: Desmogblog

NASA has shown repeatedly that the Actic icecap is melting, and melting faster than climate models predict. This new visualization is stark and should be of obvious concern, simply because of the impact on s ...
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Space: Final frontier for investors?

Source: MarketWatch

Want to see how this story relates to your portfolio? Just add items to create a portfolio now: LOS ANGELES (MarketWatch) — Now that a privately built capsule has completed its historic hook-up with the International Space Station, ...
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Businesses look to summer tourists on Miss. coast

Source: Madison.com

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Hopes are high that the summer will bring visitors and their money to Mississippi's coastal attractions as Memorial Day weekend kicks off the period of increased tourism. While casinos ...
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Private Dragon Spacecraft Is 'Golden Spike' of Final Frontier, Astronaut Says

Source: Space.com

Room for three (or more) NASA astronauts Don Pettit (right) and Joe Acaba (left) with European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andre Kuipers wave from inside SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft, now attached to the Internatio ...
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Geek Goodness: Dragon docks with ISS

Source: Hot Air

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Astronauts float inside SpaceX Dragon capsule

Source: CNBC

CAPE CANAVERAL, Florida (Reuters) - Astronauts aboard the International Space Station opened the hatch and floated inside a Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon capsule on Saturday, the first privately owned spaceship to ...
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