Monthly Archives: March 2013

Headlines from around the world: 3/4/13

Nasa has given the SpaceX rocket the go-ahead to rendezvous with the International Space Station. The maneuvers for the rendezvous involve setting up SpaceX’s unmanned Dragon cargo ship to be grappled with the space station’s robotic arm. The Dragon was launched Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, but minutes after reaching orbit SpaceX’s operators in California found out that only one of the craft’s four thruster pods was working. After several hours the glitch was resolved and all four thruster pods were functional, but it delayed the rendezvous until Sunday.

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