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kudos:5 | SpaceX spacecraft docks with Space Station »www.latimes.com/business/money/l···37.story
For the first time, a cargo-carrying spacecraft made by a private company arrived at the International Space Station.
SpaceX's unmanned Dragon spacecraft was captured by the space station's 58-foot robotic arm by astronaut Don Pettit aboard the space station. The linkup took place about 250 miles above northwest Australia at 6:56 a.m. PDT.
The cone-shaped capsule was grappled to the station’s arm after three days of circling the Earth. NASA is now determining when the spacecraft should dock with the station and when crew should unload the half-ton of cargo, water and clothes.
SpaceX, officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., is the first private company to embark on such a mission. Up until now, sending a spacecraft to the space station has been a feat that has only been accomplished by four of the world's wealthiest and most technologically advanced governments: the United States, Russia, Japan and the European Union.
Looks like a new step in space travel, with a privately funded venture successfully launching a mission to space. |
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| Enjoy! I am wishing for all to have a good Memorial Day weekend!! Remember those fought for our freedoms!!!
Going to be warm in the Midwest!! Enjoy the holiday!!
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kudos:5 | Funny: Verizon advertising at OC,NJ beach with mascot A new way to advertise for Verizon: a walking Verizon smartphone at the beach in Ocean City, NJ during the beach community's summer kickoff "Walk in to the Water Businessperson's Plunge". Is this their new marketing direction?
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Mount Joy, PA | Off to a good start here Sliced my right elbow on a piece of steel 1/2 hour before quiting time. Had to get a couple stitches. Helluva way to start a 3 day weekend!
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Re: SpaceX spacecraft docks with Space Station Pretty cool. Watched the HD feed from NASA TV on my iPad via Fios WiFi at home today (took a vacation day to make it a 4 day weekend).
Being a fan of the space program in general (boy, the definition of that changed today, and to establish my space fan "cred" my cats are named Buzz & Gordo) not only was it cool to see a private company successfully make it's first trip to the ISS, it was a point of national pride to to be able to get stuff to the ISS without bowing to those lousy Russians.
Been following the development of the Dragon Spacecraft and Falcon rockets for some time now. Most of those involved are placing a 4+ year time line on maned flight on the Falcon/Dragon. I seriously believe this will be at least HALF that. The Dragon as it docked today is a Human rated prototype on a test flight.
It's going to be interesting to see how the re entry goes. I have full confidence the Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth intact and as planned.
I was sorry to see the Shuttle program sunset. It was a triumph of technology, engineering, and national pride. But, if we can find a way to move cargo & Humans into LEO a lot cheaper, I'm all for it. I grew up loving the Shuttle program, but I never understood why we moved away from an evolutionary path aligned with the Saturn 5 and Apollo program.
The cargo capabilities of the Shuttle made the ISS possible, but who can say where the Saturn/Apollo would have gone had we decided to develop it further.
Kinda line the Apple IIGS (That's personal for me  )
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kudos:5 | reply to backfeed
Re: Enjoy! said by backfeed: Remember those fought for our freedoms!!!
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San Antonio, TX | Upgrading my laptop  Now installing windows 7 on a 120 gb ssd I bought today. My laptop has 2 bays for drives so im using the ssd for os, hdd for data. |
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| Vacation, vacation, vacation... I just finished my first of two vacations. May 6th - May 25th in Puerto Rico visiting family and now from May 25th - June 6th in Ft. Walton Beach, FL to visit my other family  . After returning home on June 6th, I'll relaxing and getting back to Pacific time until I go back to work Monday the 11th.
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Pleasant Hill, MO | Yeah weekend! AND Toonami! Gonna upgrade my 'server' to mint 13, play duke 3D hrp, some HL2, and get ready for a LAN party week after next! And by get ready I mean the server software.
Then tomorrow, TOONAMI IS BACK BITCHES! Best memorial day weekend EVER! |
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kudos:5 | reply to Boricua65
Re: Vacation, vacation, vacation... said by Boricua65:I just finished my first of two vacations. May 6th - May 25th in Puerto Rico visiting family and now from May 25th - June 6th in Ft. Walton Beach, FL to visit my other family . After returning home on June 6th, I'll relaxing and getting back to Pacific time until I go back to work Monday the 11th.
That is a nice long vacation.What industry do you work in that supports 1 mo vacations? |
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Richmond, VA | Probably government. |
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Clarksville, TN | reply to me1212
Re: Yeah weekend! AND Toonami! I want to play duke3d against you! And while were at it doom2 and the original C+C. |
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| Memorial Day Weekend - must do's Just moved into a new home recently, still getting the network connected to the ethernet jacks (got the wireless working the first night- )
Eyes are getting older and have trouble seeing the color stripes to lay them down on the connector. So I'll take my time (hopefully get it correct the 1st time)
Of course, we'll celebrate the awesome service and lives many gave to keep America (and the world) a better place, and paved the future for all of us.
My niehgbor has this new gas grill, Its cool, but I really like the old charcoal grill styled from 1970 era (same style,but bought at the wally world a few years ago). Light that bad boy off, watch the flames for 15-20 minutes and burn the burgers, sausages, chicken, corn.....ummm...gotta go...
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Mount Airy, MD | said by mitchell:Just moved into a new home recently, still getting the network connected to the ethernet jacks (got the wireless working the first night- ) Congrats on the new house... but did you have this problem?
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Re: Vacation, vacation, vacation... It could be a person who worked a lot of overtime, holidays, or took over when others were out. Instead of getting money, you get added hours of time off. He could have been part of a contract where you work almost nonstop for 11 months. Then there is the ability to reward some of the workers with extra time off. Private industry does have the ability to create nice extra benefits when economically possible. 90% of them probably do not, but there are some differently thinking ones. |
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Richmond, VA | Just my own personal experience, 20+ years @ govt. agency--8 weeks of leave each year. Taking a month at a time was not typical, but not unheard of--as long as you had coverage it was OK. |
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I am in hospitality... since we are 24/7/365 we dont get the typical holidays off so we have a PTO system... after 5 years I get 28 days... which if I really wanted would mean I can be out of the office for almost 6 weeks... but then I would be ready to scream 2 weeks after I get back... so i split and take 2 vacations of 2 weeks each and save the rests for "I cant stand this place this week" moments works out really good
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Re: Upgrading my laptop said by Duramax08::) Now installing windows 7 on a 120 gb ssd I bought today. My laptop has 2 bays for drives so im using the ssd for os, hdd for data.
I have been considering this myself, please post the results, I am curious as to how much faster the boot-up times will be with the SSD. Good luck with the upgrade!!
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GlennAllenSunny with highs in the 80s
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Richmond, VA | reply to AMejia1976
Re: Vacation, vacation, vacation... Yep, Mental Health days are the best. |
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