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[N_Molson]

Kuipers is powering up the robotic arm.

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Dragon is 12 meters away.

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The spacecraft is at the 10 meters hold point.

Last poll in Houston.

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Conditions acceptable, crew ready for capture.

 

[John_L]

GO TO CAPTURE! (Note the dragon on the flight director's desk... )

 

[N_Molson]

"Station, Houston, you have a go for capture !"

 

[Cairan]

Station, Houston... You have a GO for capture!

 

[ADSWNJ]

"Go for Capture" confirmed by NASA

 

[slaver0110]

Did we lose live feed from ISS, or am I just looking at the wrong feed?

ETA: Nevermind...my fault...

 

[orb]

2 shots from before arriving at the capture point:

Discover Magazine - Bad Astronomy: Dragon is approaching the space station

 

[ADSWNJ]

Go to use URMS now. Hope they don't put the grapple through the mesh like we do...

 

[John_L]

^ lol

 

[N_Molson]

The arm is moving.

 

[Cairan]

Arm motion! Here we go!

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Now God, PLEASE don't hit by accident the "T" key on that keyboard!

 

[N_Molson]

Contact

 

[Cairan]

CAPTURE! Yeaahhhh! TOUCHDOWN

 

[ADSWNJ]

CONGRATULATIONS SpaceX and NASA. Awesome teamwork guys, and welcome to a new era in commercial space supply missions.

 

[N_Molson]

and capture is confirmed.

 

[Codz]

Confirmed! I got quite a few screencaps of the event.

 

[N_Molson]

Andre Kuipers sure knows what he is doing with that arm, no hesitation, well done !

 

[ADSWNJ]

"We've got us a Dragon by the tail ... we're thinking this sim went really well, we're ready to turn it around and do it for real"

 

[FADEC]

I missed Apollo, but, I got this one today at least!

Congratulations to SpaceX.

 

[Jarvitä]

Lots of cheering at Houston and Hawthorne.

Don Pettit: "We've got a dragon by the tail!"