Space Station First: All Docking Ports Fully Occupied, 8 Spacecraft on Orbit - NASA
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For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied following the reinstallation of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL cargo spacecraft to the Earth-facing port of the station’s Unity module. The eight spacecraft attached to the complex are: two SpaceX Dragons, Cygnus XL, JAXA’s (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) HTV-X1, two Roscosmos Soyuz crew spacecraft, and two Progress cargo ships.

For the first time in International Space Station history, all eight docking ports aboard the orbital outpost are occupied

  • thisbenzingring@lemmy.today
    14·
    5 months ago

    its kinda like we have hit a milestone and the space station is finally being used to its fullest ability

    still have miles to go before we have an active presence in space. This is like some Romans making it to Scotland for the first time and realizing they were not prepared for that shit