Space station welcomes 1st returning vehicle since shuttle

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AP Cape Canaveral (US)
Last Updated : Jun 05 2017 | 8:57 PM IST
The International Space Station has welcomed its first returning vehicle in six years, a SpaceX Dragon making a repeat delivery.
The Dragon supply ship pulled up today, two days after launching from Florida. This same capsule dropped off a shipment in 2014. SpaceX recycled it for an unprecedented second trip.
Until their 2011 retirement, NASA's shuttles made multiple flights to the space station. But it's the first time a private company has achieved such a feat. The Americans on the space station - Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson - used a robot arm to capture the Dragon as the craft soared above the South Atlantic.
This new 6,000-pound shipment includes live lab animals: 40 mice, 400 adult fruit flies and 2,000 fruit fly eggs that should hatch any day.

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First Published: Jun 05 2017 | 8:57 PM IST

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