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 orbit ...
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Enter the Dragon: astronauts open up first private cargo craft

Source: The Age

Video will begin in 5 seconds. The Space Explorations Technologies cargo capsule makes its first pass by the International Space Station. Cape Canaveral, Florida: Space station astronauts floated into the ...
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Astronauts to Spend Memorial Day Unpacking

Source: TLC

Rather than kick their feet up this Memorial Day weekend, the astronauts aboard the International Space Station will be unloading cargo from the first private spacecraft ever to visit the orbiting lab. SpaceX ...
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Astronauts to spend Memorial Day unpacking private space capsule

Source: MSNBC

When NASA's space shuttle fleet retires in 2011, the space agency will have to rely on Russian spacecraft and the private sector to taxi cargo and humans to and from the International Space Station, even ...
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Vote Now! Best Space Stories of the Week - May 27, 2012

Source: Space.com

From complete coverage of SpaceX historic flight to your favorite photos of the solar eclipse, it's been a busy week in space. FIRST STOP: Amazing Solar Eclipse of May 20 On May 20, 2012, a rare annular solar eclipse amazed skywatchers fro ...
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Space station astronauts enter SpaceX capsule

Source: The Alexandria Town Talk

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Astronauts swung open the hatch of SpaceX's Dragon capsule Saturday, literally opening the door on a new era in commercial spaceflight. "Smells like a brand new car," reported Don Pettit, who o ...
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10 things you need to know today: May 27, 2012

Source: The Week

Anti-Syrian regime mourners chant as they carry the body of Khaled Shurbajy during his funeral procession on Saturday: More than 90 people were killed in an attack on the district of Houla. Photo: AP Photo 1. SYRIA DENIES IT WAS BEHIND AT ...
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Moondust and zero-gravity memories? So far they remain promises

Source: Bakersfield.com

But some industry watchers are concerned that the hype sometimes flies higher than the spaceships themselves. That's not to say the private space race isn't hugely significant. It is. Even critics agree there's a revolution under way -- fueled not o ...
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SpaceX launch marks change in aerospace

Source: Tulsa World

Astronauts on the space station planned to enter the capsule Saturday and take delivery of half a ton of food, water and clothing brought by the upstart space company that developed the spacecraft, Space Expl ...
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