Space history in the making 25/05

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Space history in the making 25/05

Postby tomcatforever on Fri 25 May 2012, 1:47 pm

First commercial spacecraft (Spacex - Dragon C2+) about 30 mins away from being grabbed by the International Space Station

Live coverage
Space Flight Now
NASA TV
Spacevidcast

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Re: Space history in the making 25/05

Postby cat7 on Fri 25 May 2012, 2:33 pm

Watching it now - still holding at 30 metres but expecting to start closing to 10m soon :clap:

Edited to say that by the time I'd submitted this they'd started the closing manoeuvre
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Re: Space history in the making 25/05

Postby tomcatforever on Fri 25 May 2012, 2:51 pm

ISS just got a "go" for capture :rock:
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Re: Space history in the making 25/05

Postby DanH on Fri 25 May 2012, 2:59 pm

Contact! :smile:
Always seeking to lower the tone...
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Re: Space history in the making 25/05

Postby cat7 on Fri 25 May 2012, 3:05 pm

A superb achievement :clap:
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Re: Space history in the making 25/05

Postby tomcatforever on Thu 31 May 2012, 10:53 am

Dragon has just been released from the ISS, some fantastic footage on here http://www.spaceflightnow.com/falcon9/003/status.html :cool: :cool:
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