A bit of a late announcement, but the Dragon Capsule has successfully docked with the ISS.
Quote:Dragon cleared its first major hurdle of the day Friday when station flight engineer Don Petitt, the mission's grappler-in-chief, captured the Dragon capsule with the station's robotic arm as the craft free-floated some 30 feet from the docking port.Highlighted above to note the dry, nearly dessicated humor of the flight engineer. Heh.
“Houston? Station. Looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail,” Dr. Petitt said as NASA's mission control confirmed that the arm's grip was solid.
Without skipping a beat, he deadpanned, “We're thinking this sim went really well. We're ready to turn it around and do it for real,” as applause and hugs broke out in two control rooms – NASA's and SpaceX's at the company's Hawthorne, Calif., headquarters.