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Old July 30th 11, 10:39 PM posted to sci.space.policy
Pat Flannery
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Default NASA, SpaceX agree on space station flight

On 7/29/2011 1:20 AM, Jochem Huhmann wrote:

So: Before this Dragon comes near the ISS it will have done all of what
it will do there in a safe distance. If anything goes wrong then it will
*not* come near the ISS and reenter instead.

It's surely not the easiest thing to do, but it looks as if this has
been planned well.


Yeah, it seems a pretty safe way of doing things.

Pat