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Unmanned commercial cargo ship reaches International Space Station

2013-09-29 2,120 Dailymotion

ROUGH CUT (NO REPORTER NARRATION)<br/> <br />An unmanned U.S. commercial cargo ship flew itself to the International Space Station on Sunday, completing the primary goal of its debut test flight before supply runs begin in December.<br/> <br />After a series of successful steering maneuvers, the Orbital Sciences Cygnus freighter parked about 39 feet from the station as the ships sailed 260 miles above the Southern Ocean south of Africa.<br/> <br />Ten minutes later, Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano and NASA's Karen Nyberg used the station's robotic arm to pluck the capsule from orbit and prepared to attach it to a berthing slip.<br/> <br />Cygnus' arrival had been delayed a week - first by a software glitch and then by the higher priority docking of a Russian Soyuz capsule ferrying three new crewmembers to the $100 billion outpost, a project of 15 nations.

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