This is a live feed of SpaceX?s Dragon capsule in low-Earth orbit approaching the International Space Station. The tactic is a crucial second step as SpaceX works to become the first private U.S. company to dock with the station.
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Asteroids often arouse fear when they should really arouse fascination. Relics of the early Solar System, they contain clues to the formation of the planets. In 1966, a Northrop Space Laboratories engineer proposed a piloted flyby of the near-Earth asteroid Eros to prepare astronauts for Mars. Space historian David S. F. Portree describes this early plan for a manned asteroid mission.