Dragon has been berthed successfully to ISS
The fifth Dragon capsule to fly to the International Space Station was successfully berthed to the station early today.
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The fifth Dragon capsule to fly to the International Space Station was successfully berthed to the station early today.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Great news! At the risk of sounding trite, SpaceX makes it look so easy.
True – it really is becoming quite a routine thing for them. I’ll bet they could successfully – and safely – launch a human-crewed Dragon right now if allowed to do so. I wonder if they might try launching one or more of their OWN (i.e., Non- NASA) Astronauts at some point prior to NASA approval to demonstrate their confidence. I don’t see how anyone could stop them from doing it – I’d like to hear other opinions (agree/disagree)…
I have no doubt that Musk will launch with his own astronauts at some point, independent of NASA, and do it from Brownsville no less. He said as much during the ground-breaking. He is not building this craft just for NASA but as a product he can sell to others, as well as use himself.