Wishingeveryone on Earth, and off Earth, a good Thanksgiving," said Endeavour astronaut Donald Pettit, holding iced tea in a makeshiftcup he had made from plastic coversofshuttlereference books.
"This will be one step in the long road to human expansion off of the planet into low-Earth orbit and beyond, " NASA astronaut DonaldPettit, one of Burbank's crewmates aboard the station, said Friday.
If all goes well, astronauts DonaldPettit and his partners, observing and filming the capsule from inside the station, are supposed to manipulate a roughly 50-foot robotic arm to grab and pull the capsule into a docking port.