But that vision is under review, along with the space vehicles that would get them there.
Hoshide had previously visited the ISS on a mission with the space shuttle Discovery.
Challenges of physically connecting Dragon with the space station are the toughest elements of the mission.
The 'Endeavour' is tentatively scheduled to rendezvous with the Space Station on December 6.
But this go around, the Soyuz only orbited four times before hooking up with the space station.
An experimental colony of bacteria stranded in space by problems with the space shuttle survived for six years.
The privately-owned capsule successfully berthed with the space station at 8:56 am EST.
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The Dragon will remain docked with the space station for a few weeks.
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These had at one point been confiscated by the British police, with the space originally showing them getting shut down.
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We know this because there are regular screenshots of the Seattle skyline complete with the Space Needle in the background.
Code-named Motegi, after the famed Japanese racetrack, the XPS One is designed, says Dell, with the space-conscious Japanese market in mind.
We're going to become once again like we were with the space industry, the most advanced technologically country in the world.
Musk also recounted the stressful moments around last week's launch of the unmanned Dragon cargo vessel, which linked up with the Space Station last Sunday.
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But there will be more than just movies at the event, with the space opening every day at 11 am for an array of adult and child-friendly activities.
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.
The so-called Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre is what the truck will initiate if it suffers a major failure just as it is about to dock with the space station.
Friday's tie-up with the space station, which some of the company's champions weren't sure would be achieved on the first try, shifts the spotlight to SpaceX's next moves.
The shuttle docked with the space station on Friday night as the two spacecraft soared about 200 miles (320 kilometers) just as it passed the southern coast of Chile.
We had this problem with the space bar a few times, and also with the arrow keys (it doesn't help that the up and down ones are especially tiny).
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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.
Interior Exploration using Seismic Investigations, Geodesy and Heat Transport -- InSight, for short -- was just confirmed as a new NASA mission, with the space agency set to launch in March of 2016.
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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.
It was no secret that Amazon was working an Android app store, including some early work with developers, but Amazon's "Appstore" (see what they did with the space there?) Developer Portal just went live.
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"Rather than focus on some grandiose symbolism, start on the ground--where the 6-foot human interacts with the space around him, " suggests John (Jack) Portman III, chief executive of John Portman Associates, an Atlanta architecture and development firm.
So, next year after the service mission with the space shuttle, which will hopefully take place later this year, after the new instruments that are going up have been installed, and the old instruments that have broken have been repaired...
This time, the timing can't slip even by a few seconds, because then the SpaceX vehicle would end up in a less than optimum trajectory and lack essential fuel reserves to be able to catch up and dock with the space station.
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.
Shuttle Endeavour, which had been docked with the Mir space station, unhooked on Thursday, about a half hour after the Russian space agency launched a Soyuz rocket with three new crew members for the space station.
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The transit of Venus can't be observed with the Hubble Space Telescope because the extreme brightness of the sun would destroy the telescope and its instruments.
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