"Old Space" was cool. It put humans on the Moon, sampled chemistry on Mars, and brought back images from the dawn of creation. "New Space" will be an explosion of new things to do in space, and new ways of doing them. It will be less about humans, more about machines; less about national egos, more about cooperation; less about government, more about companies. And New Space is now here.
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Friday, May 25, 2012
Two become one
Astronaut Don Pettit used the Space Station's robot arm to capture the Dragon capsule, which was completed right about 6 AM Pacific time. This picture from NASA TV shows the result of years of work by the SpaceX team, and by NASA:
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