Hardly done with push-button ease, state-of-the-art licensing is more reminiscent of the early days of space docking.
Coming after its first successful docking mission with the International Space Station, this marks the first time that a commercial spacecraft will be docking with the International Space Station with cargo.
On June 16, China sent three astronauts into space on its first manned docking mission, a significant step towards its plan to build a Chinese space station in 2020.
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From zero to docking with space stations in ten years is an impressive achievement.
Yesterday, Chinese taikonauts aboard the Shenzhou-9 completed a manual docking with orbiting space laboratory Tiangong-1.
Docking in outer space has become a silent, precise and misleadingly effortless ballet.
This success means that China is the third country to successfully complete a docking maneuver in space, behind the U.S. and Russia.
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The cramped capsule carrying NASA's Karen Nyberg, Russian cosmonaut Fyodor Yurchikhin and Italy's Luca Parmitano orbited the Earth four times before docking with the space station.
Until the eve of the launch, United States and Russian space officials argued about the overlap of the Soyuz rocket launch and the continued docking of U.S. space shuttle Endeavour at the space station.
The agency has released software that makes use of the cameras on the Parrot drone to simulate docking with a virtual space station.
Our use of it in computing is more strongly tied to the latter-day docking achieved between craft launched into space.
The cargo ship was expected to automatically park itself at the Pirs docking compartment on the Russian segment of the space station the following day, but the attempt failed and the maneuver was aborted.
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The Tiangong-1 spacelab was lowered into docking orbit earlier this month with no problems, the space agency said.
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The scheduled trip comes just a little over four months after the project successfully completed a docking test by the unmanned private spacecraft with the International Space Station.
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Before leaving the space station, the Progress 47 spacecraft conducted a test of an upgraded docking system that Russia intends to use on future unmanned Progress and manned Soyuz vehicles.
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"The docking went well, " Yuri Koptev, director of the Russian Space Agency, said in a television interview.
It will also include waterfront restaurants with docking facilities, allowing boat users to tie up alongside, as well as space for art galleries and exhibition areas.
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Users of the European Space Agency's (Esa) app will designate a real-world feature to serve as their docking port.
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