SpaceX's new Dragon capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station on Sunday, NASA and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of ...
WASHINGTON: SpaceX's new Dragon capsule successfully docked on the International Space Station on Sunday , NASA and SpaceX confirmed during a live broadcast of the mission.The announcement was met with applause at the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas.
Although the contact appeared slow, the ISS and the capsule were moving at a speed of over 27,000kph in orbit around the Earth. The Dragon capsule will remain on the ISS until Friday before detaching to splash down in the Atlantic. It will be slowed by four parachutes, in what is the one of the mission's riskiest stages.
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