But he still has memories of those days. He recalls standing on his grandfather's shoulders in his native state of Hawaii, waiting for the Apollo 11 space capsule to be plucked from the Pacific Ocean and brought to shore.
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Dragon's rendezvous systems had never been tested before inthe harsh conditions of space, with the station and thecapsule racing around the Earth in tandem at about 17, 000 miles an hour.
Joanne Maguire, overall head of the company's space programs, said in an interview that the Orion capsule is slated to blast off on top of a heavy-lift version of the U.S. military's Delta IV rocket.