Not a whole lot is being made of this:
Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured Space Exploration Technologies’ Dragon cargo ship and guided it into a berth on Friday, docking the first privately owned vehicle to reach the orbital outpost.
Using the station’s 58-foot long (17.7-meter) robotic crane, NASA astronaut Don Pettit snared Dragon at 9:56 a.m. EDT (1356 GMT) as the two spacecraft zoomed 250 miles over northwest Australia at 17,500 miles per hour.
“It looks like we’ve got us a dragon by the tail,” Pettit radioed to NASA Mission Control in Houston.
I wonder if twenty-five years from now, or maybe 100 years from now, this first commercial space flight will be a much more celebrated event than this year’s presidential election.
What do you think?
