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ATV-3 Cargo Ship Edoardo Arnaldi Arrives At Space Station (PHOTO, VIDEO) (Huffington post)

By: SPACE.com Staff

Published: 04/06/2012 04:59 PM EDT on SPACE.com

Astronauts aboard the International Space Station captured an extraordinary
photo of an unmanned European cargo ship as it docked to the orbiting outpost
last week.

The European Space Agency's third Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV-3) launched
into orbit on March 23, and arrived at the space station five days later, on
March 28. The robotic cargo ship delivered about 7 tons of supplies, including
water, oxygen, food, clothing, experiments and propellant.

The robotic ATV vehicles are designed to automatically dock to the space
station. In this photo, the ATV-3 is approaching its parking spot at the
Zvezda service module on the Russian segment of the orbiting complex.

The photo shows the ATV-3's distinctive x-wing solar arrays bathed in light
from the spacecraft's sophisticated laser guidance system. The starry night
sky and the glow of lights from Earth below make up the remarkable backdrop,
as the two vehicles fly 240 miles (386 kilometers) above the planet.

American astronaut Don Pettit shared a version of the docking photo on Twitter
the following day.

"ATV docks, breathing fire and bringing good stuff," Pettit wrote under the
name @astro_Pettit.

The cylindrical spacecraft is 35 feet ...

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