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[b]Dragon captured, berthed at space station[/b] SpaceX's CRS-5 Dragon spacecraft completed its two-day trip to the International Space Station on Monday morning (Jan. 12). NASA astronaut Butch Wilmore and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti were in the space station's Cupola when they used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to capture the Dragon at 4:54 a.m. CST (1054 GMT). The two spacecraft were flying 262 miles (420 km) above the Mediterranean Sea, just southeast of Barcelona, when the grapple was achieved. "Congratulations and nice job," said Wilmore, the commander of the station's Expedition 42 crew. "It's been a couple of days getting here, and it's nice to have it on-board, and we'll be digging in soon." Flight controllers at NASA's ISS Mission Control in Houston remotely operated the station's arm to berth the Dragon to the Harmony node. The cargo capsule was secured by two sets of bolts to the side of the module at 7:54 a.m. CST (1354 GMT). The Dragon will spend the next four weeks attached to the outpost as the Expedition 42 crew unloads it of supplies and research equipment before repacking it with completed experiments, spent hardware and refuse for its return to a splashdown and recovery on Earth in early February. The CRS-5 Dragon's arrival marked the sixth time that a Dragon has berthed to the space station, the 74th cargo freighter to resupply the outpost and the 155th mission to the orbiting laboratory.
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