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Post by Steve on Feb 14, 2011 0:07:23 GMT -6
A care package from Earth has arrived. A few weeks ago, Japan launched the robotic Kounotori 2 spacecraft to bring needed supplies, including food, to the International Space Station (ISS). Kountori 2 launched from Japan's Tanegashima Space Center reached the ISS in low Earth orbit a few days later. In the video, Kountori 2 approaches the ISS and is about to be grabbed by astronauts with the Canadarm2 and attached to the Harmony Module. In addition to launches including humans, as many as ten robotic spacecraft may be launched to the space station this year, potentially including spacecraft from Russia, Europe, Japan, and a private company in the USA. And in retrospective, how we imagined this operation in 1968 from Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. If reality seems a little dry to the romantic version, The transport less eligant in reality, yet both images amazing each in their own right. Maybe it was Kountori 2's alignment docking lights that reminded me of HAL 9000's eye. “You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'” George Bernard Shaw
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Post by Deleted on Feb 14, 2011 3:00:36 GMT -6
The future is now apparently.
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