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Article updated: 5/27/2012 1:26 AM

Astronauts enter world's 1st private supply ship

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This image provided by NASA-TV shows the SpaceX Dragon commercial cargo craft, top, after Dragon was grappled by the Canadarm2 robotic arm and connected to the International Space Station on Friday. Dragon is scheduled to spend about a week docked with the station before returning to Earth on May 31 for retrieval.

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In this image provided by NASA-TV, space station astronaut Donald Pettit, left, gives a "thumbs-up" after floating through the door of the Dragon, as other astronauts follow Saturday a day after Dragon's heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.

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Space station astronauts floated into the Dragon on Saturday, a day after its heralded arrival as the world's first commercial supply ship.NASA astronaut Donald Pettit, the first one inside the docked capsule, said "I spent quite a bit of time poking around in here this morning, just looking at the engineering and the layout, and I'm very pleased."

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