Station Arm News Today

13 years ago we started permanently living on the space station, so weve sort of moved into the settlement phase and eventually it will go from the space station to the moon and to mars. but, you know, its just a natural explorative process and the six people up on the station right now, theyre celebrating the anniversary but theyre also testing the equipment that will let us go further. theyre pretty proud people from all around the earth. >> we forget theyre doing work up there. it seems these...

An hour so its all relative. therefore, its not like youre trying to hit a bullet with a bullet. they will move it in slowly so its a matter of being relative to speed. theyll move in as slowly as they can but they have to move in at least fast enough for the docking mechanism to work. some of them newer systems use the station arm that reaches out and grabs the craft and brings it back in. the russians have been very insist tant on using the automatic docking system. it never has worked well. t...