Sunday, October 14, 2012

"Dragon" again travels in space


A private company has conducted the second launch an unmanned cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station.
Spacecraft called "Dragon" was launched on Sunday evening from Cape Canaveral in Florida. The ship, carrying 450 kilograms of food and other commodities, is expected to reach the space station Wednesday. She is scheduled to return to Earth with experiments and other materials from the space station. The ship belongs to the company "Space Exploration Technologies", or Space X headquartered in California. In May, the company has shipped and successfully anchored a ship "Dragon" to the space station, marking the first time a private capsule orbiting laboratory flies. SpaceX has a contract valued at $ 1.6 billion with NASA to conduct flights aimed at supplying the international space station.

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