After docking, two hours passed before pressure equalized between the capsule and the station, allowing safe entry.
The arm will guide the supply capsule into the station, and the Dragon completed the attachment at 8:56 a.m.
American astronauts reached out and grasped the capsule with the station's robotic arm and docked it to the air-lock.
When it launches, three days later, astronauts will use a robotic arm to attach the Dragon capsule to the station.
The arm will guide the supply capsule into the station, and the Dragon is expected to berth at about 9:40 a.m.
If NASA gives the go-ahead, the crew will use the arm to attach the capsule to the station and begin unloading supplies, according to SpaceX.
However, after the successful launch of an unmanned capsule to the station, followed by the successful manned launch, it appears that things are now back on track.
If all goes well, astronauts Donald Pettit and his partners, observing and filming the capsule from inside the station, are supposed to manipulate a roughly 50-foot robotic arm to grab and pull the capsule into a docking port.
After the capsule hooks up with the station 240 miles above the earth, astronauts plan to retrieve about 1, 000 pounds of provisions, including food and clothes.
Dragon's rendezvous systems had never been tested before in the harsh conditions of space, with the station and the capsule racing around the Earth in tandem at about 17, 000 miles an hour.
KOROLYOV, Russia (Reuters) -- A Russian space capsule docked with the orbiting station Mir on Monday to allow a joint Russian-French-Slovak crew to embark on what could be the last mission to the aging craft.
The privately-owned capsule successfully berthed with the space station at 8:56 am EST.
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Even if NASA elects to merge the two remaining test launches, it will still need to spend more money than it was originally planning to verify that Falcon 9 and the Dragon capsule are suitable for space-station operations.
The capsule is expected to berth with the station at 7:22 am ET on Wednesday.
At 9:03 am ET this morning, the SpaceX Dragon capsule successfully berthed with the International Space Station.
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Mr. Musk's team hopes to use a version of the same capsule to transport astronauts to the space station as early as 2017.
That would come when NASA redesigned its spacesuit for the first mission of the Orion capsule scheduled to fly to the space station in 2014.
We also reached a critically important milestone in May when SpaceX became the first private company to send a spacecraft -- the Dragon cargo capsule -- to the International Space Station and return it with cargo intact.
We believe it has power-generating capacity which, based on the two sets of panels, that probably makes it comparable to the old Mir space station as opposed to simply the Soyuz capsule.
The toughest test of the SpaceX capsule is set to occur Friday, when the cargo capsule is expected to steadily move closer to the station in a weightless ballet with the larger craft.
He'll blast off in a Russian capsule, and after it docks with the space station, he'll be able to shake hands with Sergei Volkov, the first child of a Russian cosmonaut to go up.
After a two-day journey aboard the Soyuz capsule, the crew will dock with the space station, overlapping briefly with the current crew - station commander Mike Fossum of Nasa, Japan's Satoshi Furukawa and Russia's Sergei Volkov - who will then return to earth.
Capsule Ryokan Kyoto is located a short walk from Kyoto Station, near the southeast corner of the Horikawa-Shichijo intersection.
Good news, because after a day's delay due to (now remedied, according to NASA and SpaceX) faults with three clusters of its Draco thrusters, the capsule is set to be grappled by the International Space Station at 6:31AM ET on March 3rd (tomorrow morning).
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Astronauts released the unmanned SpaceX capsule, named Dragon, from the end of the space station's giant robot arm.
On March 1, the SpaceX Dragon capsule will launch on its third trip to the International Space Station.
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This conical capsule will take astronauts much deeper into space, beyond the station to destinations such as asteroids, the Moon and even Mars.
SpaceX , founded by Elon Musk, an entrepreneur, hopes its Dragon capsule will start ferrying astronauts and cargo to the International Space Station next year for NASA when the agency's shuttle programme comes to an end.
The cargo capsule will continue its orbit Wednesday as it travels toward the space station.
At 3:22pm ET today, the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down safely in the Pacific after departing the International Space Station earlier this morning.
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