SpaceX Dragon delivers bounty to space station

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — A SpaceX shipment arrived at the International Space Station on Wednesday, delivering a bonanza of science experiments.

The SpaceX Dragon capsule pulled up following a two-day flight from Cape Canaveral. NASA astronaut Jack Fischer used the space station’s hefty robot arm to grab the Dragon 250 miles above the Pacific, near New Zealand.

The Dragon holds 3 tons of cargo, mostly research. The extra-large science load includes a cosmic ray monitor, a mini satellite with cheap, off-the-shelf scopes for potential military viewing, and 20 mice for an eye and brain study. the sentences overturned by a federal court in Maryland. In Virginia, life sentences for his jury conviction in one murder case and his guilty pleas to two other murders were overturned in May by a federal judge because of the Supreme Court ruling.

Malvo and John Allen Muhammad began a cross-country shooting rampage in February 2002 that ended in 13 shootings, 10 of them fatal, in the D.C. area in October of that year. Malvo was first convicted of a fatal shooting in Falls Church, Virginia, and sentenced to life without parole. Muhammad was convicted for a slaying in Manassas, Virginia, and sentenced to death. Malvo then pleaded guilty to two more slayings near Fredericksburg, Virginia, and received two more life sentences.

In 2006, Malvo testified against Muhammad in Montgomery County, Maryland, and then pleaded guilty himself to six counts of first-degree murder there. He received six more life sentences. In 2012, the Supreme Court ruled that “sentencing a child to life without parole is excessive for all but ‘the rare juvenile offender whose crime reflects irreparable corruption.’”