The first individual rocket company in the world — SpaceX of Hawthorne , California — has just achieve a big succeeder for outer space exploration and the American quad industriousness : their Dragon spaceship has successfully docked with the International Space Station at 9:05AM .
This is the first prescribed resupply deputation for the ISS , under declaration with NASA . It has been flawless : the stage two of the moorage operation was completed while the ISS was flying over the south Atlantic , somewhere between Africa and South America .
The Dragon capsule was bewitch at 6:56AM ET/3:56AM PT , when Expedition 33 crew extremity Akihiko Hoshid — of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency — used the post ’s robotic arm to grab Dragon as it near the ISS . The Expedition 33 Commander — NASA ’s Sunita Williams — said : “ look like we ’ve tamed the Dragon . We ’re happy she ’s on display board with us . ”
The Californian company , lead by Elon Musk , launched Dragon on October 7 , 2012 , on top of its two - point Falcon 9 projectile . The mission — the first SpaceX operation under its Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA — followed a serial of succeeder thatculminated on Maywith the SpaceX COTS Demo Flight 2 , the first clip a private spacecraft docked with the International Space Station .
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The Dragon now docked to the ISS is packed with 1,995 pounds of delicacy ( including packaging ):
• 260 pound of supplies for the crew .
• 390 pounds of material for experiment already in the post and 66 raw experiments
• 232 punt of computer hardware and other various supplies .
When it returns , it will impart the the same weighting , including hardware , science experiments , supplies and spacesuit equipment .
Congratulations to SpaceX for another remarkable succeeder and cave in us hope that soon American astronaut will be able to reach orbit on their own means .
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