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This photo taken April 3, 2008 shows the entrance of the National Centre for Space Studies (CNES) in Toulouse, in southwestern France, from where the Automated Transfer Vehicle (ATV) 'Jules Verne' is piloted by engineers of the European Space Agency (ESA) to connect with the International Space station in space. The engineers of the ATV, weighing 50 tonnes and entirely automated, launched on March 9, 2008 and received the green light yesterday to dock Jules Verne at the Internaional Space station today as planned, the ESA announced.
This image provided by NASA shows the Jules Verne Automated Transfer Vehicle as it approaches the International Space Station, Monday, March 31, 2008, for a practice maneuver backdropped by the airglow of Earth's horizon and the blackness of space. It moved to within 36 feet of the Zvezda Service Module in a rehearsal for docking on Thursday.