Updated 3:05 p.m. EDT, Wednesday, October 10
A future of routine commercial cargo deliveries to humans living in outer space came just a bit closer to reality on Wednesday when SpaceX successfully joined its unmanned Dragon cargo capsule to the International Space Station orbiting some 250 miles above the Earth at a speed of over 17,000 miles per hour.
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