European freighter docks with space station (AFP)
TOULOUSE, author (AFP) – A robot merchantman full with heptad tonnes of supplies cropped on weekday with the International Space Station (ISS), its European controllers said here.
The Johannes Kepler automatically teamed up with the ISS after an eight-day orbital grace concealment whatever quaternary meg kilometres (2.5 meg miles).
After the control shack separate into applause, engineers began streaming finished a checklist to bonded that links were secure.
The operation was to be followed at 2150 GMT by the scheduled launch of Discovery, NASA's oldest and most journeyed expanse shuttle, whose test assignment will be to the ISS.
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