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SpaceX Capsules Parked Side-by-side At Station For 1st Time

A SpaceX supply ship bearing Christmas goodies arrived at the International Space Station on Monday, parking alongside another Dragon capsule that carried up astronauts three weeks ago. Its the first time Elon Musk's company has two Dragons at the orbiting lab.

Unlike SpaceX's previous cargo carriers, which had to be plucked from orbit by the space stations robot arm, this larger and updated model docked all by itself a day after rocketing into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center.