Dragon Capsule Could Be 1st Private Craft To Dock With ISS

Posted by timothy on Tuesday July 26, 2011 @12:03AM from the inflection-point dept.

thomst writes "Space News reports that NASA has given tentative approval for SpaceX to combine the two remaining flights designed to prove the Hawthorne, Calif., company can deliver cargo to the international space station, according to William Gerstenmaier, NASA's associate administrator for space operations, although formal approval for the mission is still pending. If NASA does approve the plan, SpaceX's Dragon capsule would be the first civilian spacecraft actually to dock with the International Space Station. According to NASA spokesman Joshua Buck, the current plan calls for SpaceX to launch a Dragon capsule aboard a Falcon 9 rocket on Nov. 30, which would then rendezvous and dock with the space station on Dec. 7 — a day that would live in spaceflight history."

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Re:Live in space history? by necro81 · 2011-07-26 00:31 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Perhaps a lesson in history is in order:

The Summary: "Dec. 7 — a day that would live in spaceflight history"

Franklin Delano Roosevelt: "December 7, 1941—a date which will live in infamy"