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[b]HTV-9 arrives at space station[/b] Using the International Space Station's robotic arm, Canadarm2, Expedition 63 commander Chris Cassidy, assisted by flight engineer Ivan Wagner of Roscosmos, grappled the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) Kounotori H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV-9) on Monday (May 25) at 8:13 a.m. EDT (1213 GMT). At the time of capture, the space station and cargo spacecraft were flying 260 miles (420 kilometers) above Tanzania in Africa. Ground controllers at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston then took over robotic arm operations and berthed HTV-9 at 10:46 a.m. EDT (1446 GMT) to the Earth-facing port of the station's Harmony module, where it will remain for two months.
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