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A wing fragment is part of the plane that vanished with 239 on board. now to outer space. even astronauts have to eat vegies, don t get away from that. crew at the international space station chowed on leafy greens grown in 0 g as an experiment in self sufficiency in outer space. phil keating in miami has more on this. hi, phil. reporter: hi, jenna. who knew a space salad could make history. an hour ago, that s what happened as space station residents for the first time ate home grown in space red row main lettuce, high drama watching that nasa feed come down from space as they pulled the tray of lettuce out of the rack where it has been growing for the last month in the columbus module. after tasting it raw, they became the first astronauts to ....
If nasa decides this is a no go? guest: well, everything on board the dragon capsule food, clothing and equipment and supplies is expendable. so, worse comes to worse they can send it back to earth. if everything goes at planned it will come a mile and a half and, actually, closer than that, the big robot arm operated by the residents on the space station will grab it, bring it in, and they will dock it, and berth it with the space station itself, and tomorrow on saturday, or, rather, saturday, they would unload the cargo. check out what the solar eclipse looked like from space. a big black circle. flying over the clouds of the earth, a ring of fire for the earth people and that is how it looked for space station residents. big day tomorrow at 6:00 a.m., when the robotic arm will grab the capsule and make space ....
Close. so far this mission spacex has cleared every crucial test. all dragon systems check out. we look good. we re currently to fly up and over station overnight and prepare for berthing. dragon is go for berthing date tomorrow. reporter: here is another never-before-seen image. this is what the international space station looks like via thermal imaging from a mile and a half from a camera on board the drag gone capsule. all of this leads to tomorrow the historic day for spacex and the private space race including four spacex competitors right now. rendezvous, capture and berthing for the first commercial spacecraft to the space station. space station residents will use a long robotic arm to grab it and bring it in over several hours. this is pretty cool. check this out. this is the view from space last weekend from the space station of the annular solar ....