{"id":15220,"date":"2012-05-25T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T16:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15220"},"modified":"2012-06-18T12:26:57","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T17:26:57","slug":"grabbing-the-dragons-tail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/05\/25\/grabbing-the-dragons-tail\/","title":{"rendered":"Grabbing the <em>Dragon<\/em>&#8216;s tail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2012\/05\/25\/iss_catches_the_dragon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Brid-Aine Parnell<\/a> at <em>The Register<\/em> on today&#8217;s successful rendezvous with the ISS:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has just made history with the first ever commercial cargoship to be captured by the International Space Station&#8217;s robotic arm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Canadarm_captures_dragon.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Canadarm_captures_dragon\" width=\"580\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Canadarm_captures_dragon.jpg 580w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Canadarm_captures_dragon-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Canadarm_captures_dragon-480x331.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Image from NASA TV<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Flying above northwestern Australia, flight engineer Don Pettit aboard the ISS reached out with the Canadarm and grabbed the <em>Dragon<\/em> at 9.56am EDT, 14.56 GMT.<\/p>\n<p>Reg staff are not sure if astronauts are given cheesy lines to say at these big moments, but Pettit had a great one ready.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looks like we&#8217;ve got a dragon by the tail,&#8221; he announced to Mission Control Centre in Houston.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Looks like this sim went really well, we&#8217;re ready to turn it around and do it for real,&#8221; he joked.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brid-Aine Parnell at The Register on today&#8217;s successful rendezvous with the ISS: Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX has just made history with the first ever commercial cargoship to be captured by the International Space Station&#8217;s robotic arm. Image from NASA TV Flying above northwestern Australia, flight engineer Don Pettit aboard the ISS reached out with the Canadarm [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,15,13],"tags":[825,722,69,716,708],"class_list":["post-15220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-science","category-technology","category-usa","tag-iss","tag-lowearthorbit","tag-nasa","tag-spacecraft","tag-spacex"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Xu","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15557,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15220\/revisions\/15557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}