He walked fifty feet downshore, stepped onto the pond, walked a wide loop on the solid stuff, turned to shore, started toward the black water.

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Industry experts say the wide loop Dragon is supposed to take around the space station, followed by various other maneuvers, could be a problem if the capsule burns more fuel than anticipated.

WSJ: SpaceX's Pioneering Flight Plans

For the rest of Thursday, ground controllers plan to send Dragon on a wide loop around the space station, maintaining a separation of several miles as the spacecraft zips above and then falls behind the station.

WSJ: SpaceX Craft Rehearses Moves

Ireland have a move where fly-half Jonathan Sexton runs around Brian O'Driscoll to take the return pass on the loop and free the runners out wide.

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He piggybacks this unit directly on top of a scope, allowing him to produce never-before-captured wide-field images, like his striking, ghostly picture of Barnard's Loop-a huge arc of gas that covers the length of the constellation Orion.

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