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Story summary
- SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft approached the International Space Station on May 25, 2012.
- Expedition 31 engineers Don Pettit and Andre Kuipers used Canadarm2 to grapple and berth Dragon to Harmony.
- Dragon was scheduled to remain docked for about one week.
- Elon Musk set a late-2027 target for launching orbital data-center services.
- Blaine Curcio said a 2030s timeline is realistic, noting SpaceX previously disproved 10,000-satellite doubts.
