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@ru10g2000pbc.googlegroups.com, says...

SpaceX Dragon successfully docks with International Space Station:

"After some issues with its thrusters hours after launch, the
SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully docked with the
International Space Station. NASA reported that the
capsule attached to the Harmony module of the ISS at
8:56am EST Sunday morning, with the door set to be
opened on Monday morning.

Dragon took off from Cape Canaveral on Friday morning and
reached orbit without a hitch, but a pressure problem prevented
the thruster pods from initializing once orbit was attained. The
four pods then gradually came online over the course of the
day. Two pods are needed to get Dragon to the ISS with a
third pod necessary for successfully maneuvering once the
station is reached."

See:

http://arstechnica.com/science/2013/...space-station/

Congrats to SpaceX for working through the problems with the "cranky"
Dragon and docking well before I could read about it on Monday morning.

:-)

I watched the launch live, over the web, last week and noted how rock
solid guidance seemed to be on the last flight of Falcon 9 version 1.0.
Next up, version 1.1 with uprated engines and stretched fuel/oxidizer
tanks for improved performance.

Jeff
--
"the perennial claim that hypersonic airbreathing propulsion would
magically make space launch cheaper is nonsense -- LOX is much cheaper
than advanced airbreathing engines, and so are the tanks to put it in
and the extra thrust to carry it." - Henry Spencer