SpaceX Does It Again -- There's A Dragon In Orbit

SpaceX Does It Again -- There's A Dragon In Orbit: CRS-1 ISS Resupply Docking Coming Up Shortly On-time and on-spec, the SpaceX Dragon is now its way to the ISS. Following a Sunday night, 2035 ET launch, the Dragon capsule reached its planned orbit of 212 miles above Earth, despite a single engine failure about a minute into the mission, and is on course to catch up to the station during the next couple of days. It has opened the two solar arrays on the side of the spacecraft to power its systems from sunlight. SpaceX launched the first of a dozen operational missions to deliver supplies to the International Space Station on Oct. 7 for NASA. Launch time came at 8:35 p.m. from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, just a few miles south of the space shuttle launch pads.