Japan’s Sixth Cargo Mission Reaches Space Station
Credit: Japan’s HTV-6 cargo craft is installed to the Harmony module’s Earth-facing port: NASA
HOUSTON—Astronauts teamed with NASA’s Mission Control to grapple and berth the sixth Japanese-launched resupply mission capsule with its 4 1/2-ton cargo to the six-person International Space Station early Dec. 13 as the two spacecraft orbited 250 mi. above southern Chile. The 12-ton HTV-6 Kounotori...
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