Dragon Docks with Space Station The Dragon space capsule,
launched from Cape Canaveral by the private company SpaceX, is
safely attached to the International Space Station. Dragon was
grappled with a robotic arm and secured to the space station on
Wednesday morning. Astronauts will unload nearly 1000 pounds of
equipment from the spacecraft and fill it with hardware and
scientific experiments from the ISS before it returns to earth
on October 28th. The spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral
Sunday night and made it into orbit even though one of the nine
engines on the Falcon 9 rocket failed and had to be shut down.
The engine failure interfered with the deployment of a secondary
payload, a private communications satellite. The orbcomm
satellite had to be put into a lower orbit than planned so as
not to compromise the safety of the NASA mission. SpaceX says
its still reviewing flight data along with NASA to find out what
went wrong. "We have achieved our goal of repeatedly getting
into orbit by creating a care