SpaceX First Ever Commercial Operation To Dock With International Space Station

Luckily the whole thing didn’t turn into some sort of Event Horizon-type deal

Space travel for the everyday earthling is on the horizon. It seems like we are only a few years from taking a family holiday to the barren wastes of Mars or having a weekend with the boys on the gas giant Uranus.

Well now Elon Musk’s space transportation company; SpaceX has got us even closer to intergalactic vacations, with their Dragon capsule successfully docking with the international space station.

The unmanned capsule delivered its crew of an anthropomorphic earth plush toy and a crash test dummy named Ripley (which we can safely assume is named after Ripley castle in Yorkshire… or I guess Sigourney Weaver’s character in Alien, but my money is on the castle.)

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The plan now is to launch an actual real-life crew to the ISS in July, which is good, because for a while now US astronauts have had to hitch rides with the Russians in their Soyuz capsules, and I hear the Russians don’t let the Americans change stations on the radio.