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US' SpaceX Dragon ship 'smells like a brand new car': NASA astronaut
NASA astronaut Donald Pettit has said that the interiors of a Dragon ship of California SpaceX smell like of a brand new car. Pettit, the first to go inside the docked capsule, said the Dragon looks like it carries about as much cargo as his pickup truck back home in Houston. "I spent quite a bit of time poking around in here this morning, just looking at the engineering and the layout, and I'm very

Dragon makes history with space station docking

The private company SpaceX made history Friday with the docking of its Dragon capsule to the International Space Station, the most impressive feat yet in turning routine spaceflight over to the

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US' SpaceX makes history after successfully attaching Dragon cargo ship with ISS
The California SpaceX company has been successful in attaching its unmanned Dragon cargo ship to the International Space Station (ISS).

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Commercial space race gets crowded behind SpaceX
A privately built space capsule that's zipping its way to the International Space Station has also launched something else: A new for-profit space race.

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Commercial rocket will fly to the space station

For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's

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Commercial rocket will fly to the space station

For the first time, a private company will launch a rocket to the International Space Station, sending it on a grocery run this weekend that could be the shape of things to come for America's

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