Dragon was docked to the Harmony module using the Canadarm robot arm to 2.20 Moscow time - at this point have worked all 16 fixtures, which are tightly connect the spacecraft to the station.
NASA Ship Dragon, captured by the ISS manipulator Canadarm
During the approach to the ISS aboard the ship fails with an infrared camera and laser system, LIDAR, which are designed for navigation and control of the device relative to the station. Therefore, during the convergence of the ship made several unscheduled stops, and the actual docking occurred about two hours later than planned.
Hatches ship is expected to be open on Saturday. Dragon delivered to the station about 500 pounds of cargo - it is "optional" items, without which the crew can easily manage.
The cargo compartment of the first "private traders" - several boxes of equipment for experiments with fluids produced by students in an open competition. The structure of this equipment includes ice cubes to cool the samples. On board will be delivered to laptops, batteries and food - 117 standard meals for astronauts wear.
As planned, Dragon will be docked to the station until May 31, after which the ship's descent capsule landed in the Pacific Ocean , bringing several hundred kilograms of cargo to Earth.
Dragon, developed by U.S.
SpaceX has spent on the development of the ship for four years - in December 2010, he made the first flight into orbit and safe splashdown in the Pacific. Thus, SpaceX became the first private company that brought the ship into space and successfully restored it to the earth - that had managed just three countries - the U.S. Russia China
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