SpaceX is first private company to deliver cargo to space station

Source: Lebanon Daily Star

WASHINGTON: SpaceX’s Dragon cargo vessel smells like a new car, said astronauts at the International Space Station after opening the hatches Saturday following the spacecraft’s landmark mission to the orbiting lab. The California-based ...
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Astronauts explore Dragon

Source: Arkansas Online

Astronaut Donald Pettit gives a thumbs up Saturday after floating from the Dragon into the International Space Station. CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world ...
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BC Company Becomes First Official Producer and Distributor of Replica SpaceX Spacecraft

Source: Beaumont Enterprise

Proach Models, based on BC's Sunshine Coast, has just signed a deal to become the first official producer and distributor of replica SpaceX spacecraft, including the Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft. Less than an hour after Spac ...
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Today In History

Source: CBS-WNCT Eyewitness News 9

Today is Saturday, June 2, the 154th day of 2012. There are 212 days left in the year. Highlights in history on this date: 637 - Arab Muslim army vanquishes Persians at battle of Al-Qadisiyya, opening Persia to Arab conquest. 1815 ...
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SpaceX Dragon capsule: ISS astronauts unload the world’s first commercial cargo spacecraft (VIDEO)

Source: Global Post

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station watch the launch of the SpaceX Dragon cargo ship. (NASA/Courtesy) Astronauts from the International Space Station boarded the first commercial supply ship to carry cargo into space today, MSN ...
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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. The craft made aerospa ...
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ISS Astronauts Inspect, Praise SpaceX Dragon

Source: GlobalSecurity.org

Less than 24 hours after the Dragon capsule docked with the International Space Station, astronauts opened the hatch and floated into the first private spacecraft to ever reach their orbiting outpost. NASA astronaut Don Pettit said there was something ...
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Europe's ATV-3 Spacecraft to Raise Space Station Orbit

Source: GlobalSecurity.org

MOSCOW, May 26 (RIA Novosti) - Two main engines of European Space Agency’s ATV-3 space freighter will be switched on early on Saturday to readjust the orbit of the International Space Station (ISS), Russian Mission Control said. The engines of the Edo ...
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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 sho ...
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