HTV Berthes At ISS After First Rendezvous And Grapple

Credit: NASA TV
Japan’s unmanned H-II Transfer Vehicle (HTV) approaches the International Space Station’s Canadarm2 Sept. 17, just before NASA astronaut Nicole Stott used it to grapple the 16.5-metric-ton cargo carrier in darkness 225 mi. above Romania. The capture and subsequent berthing of the HTV to the nadir...

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