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Dragon Arrives, Successfully Captured at Station

Dragon Captured
The Canadarm2 has the SpaceX Dragon in its grips. Credit: NASA TV

While the International Space Station was traveling over the Mediterranean Sea, Expedition 42 Commander Barry “Butch” Wilmore of NASA, with the assistance of Flight Engineer Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency, successfully captured the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with the station’s robotic arm at 5:54 a.m. EST.

NASA TV coverage of operations to berth Dragon to the space station will begin at 7:45 a.m.