The ISS manipulator arm captured the US Cygnus XL cargo ship

The Canadarm2 manipulator arm on the International Space Station (ISS) captured the American Cygnus XL cargo ship, delivering more than 5 tons of cargo and scientific equipment to astronauts. This was announced on April 13 by the NASA press service.

It is noted that the manipulator was operated by astronauts Chris Williams and Jack Hathaway. After the capture, the spacecraft was sent to the ISS Unity module landing port.

It is noted that the device took off from the surface of the Earth using a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from launch complex 40 of the Cape Canaveral cosmodrome in Florida.

A sense of weight: how Izvestia released a book about Gagarin at cosmic speed

On April 12, 1961, a special issue of the newspaper was published

On April 3, a photo of Earth taken by astronauts of the Artemis II lunar mission from a distance of almost 70,000 km appeared on the NASA website. The planet is depicted in the shape of a crescent moon. A part of the Orion spacecraft is also visible in the photo. As noted in the space agency, this is the first time since the end of the Apollo program in 1972, when a person saw the Earth live from such a distance.

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