Three taikonauts successfully linked a spacecraft to the Tiangong - 1 orbiting lab in June, the first time a Chinese crew performed such a docking. (discovermagazine.com)
NASA is paying billions of dollars to Orbital Sciences and the SpaceX company to make station deliveries, and it's counting on SpaceX and Boeing to start flying U.S. astronauts to the orbiting lab as early as 2017.» (entrepreneur.com)
Italian astronaut Paolo Nespoli was aboard the orbiting lab for that call and was also around to chat with Francis, who considered a career in chemistry before becoming a priest. (premierchristianity.com)