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9 mins away from orbital sunset.

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Looking at an orbital sunset capture.
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Taking up lots of frame on the LEE cam.

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Sunset.
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6 mins away from capture point. 18m away. Will let the ISS crew decide on if they will wait for orbital sunrise to capture or to do it in night conditions.
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Capture point area.
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Tim Peak and Jeff are in cupola manning the robotic arm workstation.

Reflection of station can be seen in dragons panels. :)

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13m, strobe commanded off. Houston agreed that was a very good idea. Sounds like they will go for night capture.
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6 mins away from capture point. 18m away. Will let the ISS crew decide on if they will wait for orbital sunrise to capture or to do it in night conditions.

Capturing dragons near sunset/around nighttime sounds like something out of 'Reign of Fire'

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Very pretty....
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Holding at the capture point.
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Go for capture sequence. Camera zoomed and panned to dragon. :)

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Go for capture

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Arm closing in.

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Space station now in free-drift was called on radio. Dragon green light on side went out. 1m distance on arm.

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6:23am central capture confirmed.

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CAPTURE CONFIRMED! SpaceX's CRS-8 Dragon grabbed by Tim Peake using the SSRMS!
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Capture confirmed
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Tim Peake "looks like we caught a Dragon".
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We, Great Britain, hereby claim this vessel on behalf of Her Majesty The Queen. ;D

I bet that's the first time Tim Peake has ever squeezed a trigger without something blowing up as a result! :D
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