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SpaceX Dragon cargo

author: NASA/Novapix

reference: e-is031-02490

Image Size 300 DPI: 36 * 24 cm

Backdropped against the Namib Desert on the Atlantic coast of Namibia, the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft approaches the International Space Station on May 25, 2012 for grapple and berthing. Expedition 31 Flight Engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers grappled Dragon at 9:56 a.m. (EDT) with the Canadarm2 robotic arm and used the robotic arm to berth Dragon to the Earth-facing side of the station's Harmony node at 12:02 p.m.

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2012 - DESERT - DOCKING - DRAGON - EARTH - EARTH FROM SPACE - EXPEDITION 31 - INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION - ISS - NAMIBIA - RENDEZVOUS - SPACE - SPACE STATION - SPACEX - SPACEX DRAGON -