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August 12, 2013

Japanese Cargo Spacecraft Docks with ISS
Moscow (RIA Novosti) Aug 12, 2013
A Japanese cargo freighter docked with the International Space Station on Friday, NASA said. Nicknamed Kounotori-2 (Japanese for "white stork"), the HTV-4 freighter docked with the station after being pulled in by Canadian-built robotic arm Canadarm, operated by flight engineers Karen Nyberg and Chris Cassidy. HTV-4 blasted off from southern Japan's Tanegashima Space Center on August 4 at 4:48 a.m. local time (7:48 p.m. GMT, August 3). The spacecraft delivered about six tons of scienti ... read more

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