After a year of groundbreaking successes, SpaceX may be forgiven for viewing the first commercial spacecraft to deliver goods to the International Space Station as the greatest gift one could give – even if they did make it themselves. The company tweeted a “Feliz Navi-Dragon” to all of its followers – a groan-inducing play on words that is considerably less forgivable.
“Feliz Nav-Dragon, from all of us at SpaceX!” tweeted the company on December 23.
Below, a summary of the first Commercial Resupply Mission (CRS-1) milestones:
![A trajectory analysis that used a computational fluid dynamics approach to determine the likely position and velocity histories of the foam (Credits: NASA Ref [1] p61).](http://www.spacesafetymagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/fluid-dynamics-trajectory-analysis-50x50.jpg)
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