Europe’s robot freighter successfully docked on its maiden voyage Thursday with the International Space Station, the European Space Agency (ESA) announced.
The Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV), named after French science-fiction pioneer Jules Verne, hooked up with the orbiting space station on schedule at 1445 GMT.
TUESDAY, APRIL 8, 2008
A Soyuz rocket carrying South Korea’s first astronaut and two cosmonauts bound for the international space station blasted off from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan today and rocketed smoothly into orbit.