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[b]Astronauts capture Dragon at space station[/b] Using the space station's Canadarm2 robotic arm, Expedition 52 flight engineers Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson of NASA captured the SpaceX CRS-11 Dragon cargo spacecraft on Monday (June 5). The grapple came a few minutes earlier than scheduled at 8:52 a.m. CDT (1352 GMT). "We want to note the special significance of SpaceX-11, which if we follow the naming convention the artist Prince, could be called 'the SpaceX formerly known as SpaceX-4.' That's right, it's flying its second mission to the ISS, launched off a first stage that landed back at Kennedy Space Center for its next flight," said Fischer. "The last time we had a return visitor to the ISS was STS-135 in July of 2011, when Atlantis secured the shuttle's legendary place in history," he added. "We have a new generation of vehicles now, led by commercial partners like SpaceX, as they build the infrastructure that will carry us into the future of exploration."
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