Astronauts aboard the International area Station captured area Exploration Technologies' unmanned Dragon cargo capsule on Friday, the primary non-public ship to achieve the orbital outpost.
Using the station's robot arm, NASA astronaut Don Pettit latched on to the capsule at 9:56 a.m. EDT because the 2 vehicles sailed at seventeen,500 mph around Earth. Dragon, that is creating a take a look at flight beneath a NASA contract with the corporate, referred to as SpaceX, was expected to be connected to a station docking port in a while Friday.
SpaceX is one in every of 2 companies employed by NASA to fly cargo to the station following the retirement of the area shuttles last year.