SpaceX successfully flies by International Space Station:

While orbiting Earth at about 17,000 mph, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule Thursday came within 1.5 miles of the International Space Station in preparation for its historic hookup scheduled for later this week.
The fly-by, confirmed by NASA in its webcast, is a crucial step for the company, officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and its goal of becoming the world’s first private firm to dock a craft with the space station.

Photo: At left, the International Space Station passes in front of the sun as seen in an image taken from Salgotarjan, northeast of Budapest, Hungary. Credit: Peter Komka / EPA

SpaceX successfully flies by International Space Station:

While orbiting Earth at about 17,000 mph, SpaceX’s Dragon capsule Thursday came within 1.5 miles of the International Space Station in preparation for its historic hookup scheduled for later this week.

The fly-by, confirmed by NASA in its webcast, is a crucial step for the company, officially known as Space Exploration Technologies Corp., and its goal of becoming the world’s first private firm to dock a craft with the space station.

Photo: At left, the International Space Station passes in front of the sun as seen in an image taken from Salgotarjan, northeast of Budapest, Hungary. Credit: Peter Komka / EPA

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    I fed a bunch of the engineers Dragon Vagina shots to celebrate the completion of the project.
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