Well besides being "Cookie Monsters birthday" the other favorites for Friday are...

A gift from Beckham to Obama...

(CNN) – Soccer player David Beckham is getting back at President Barack Obama, after the President poked fun at Beckham’s H&M underwear line. Beckham was visiting the White House with his LA Galaxy teammates to celebrate their 2011 Major League Soccer Cup Championship last week, when Mr. Obama made the quip about Beckham’s underwear in front of the team. Now, Beckham tells the entertainment show Extra that he plans to send the President a “big box” of undies for the plug.

The Dragon Makes History...

(CNN) — “Like the smell of a brand-new car” were the words of International Space Station astronaut Don Pettit on Saturday after he carefully opened the hatch and entered the Dragon capsule for his first glimpse inside. Dragon connected with the station Friday, making history as the first private capsule to reach the orbiting spacecraft. Pettit opened the hatch at 5:53 a.m. ET with Russian cosmonaut and station commander Oleg Kononenko by his side. The two men, wearing T-shirts, khaki shorts, goggles and masks gave the thumbs up to the camera after they floated inside. The initial inspection went smoothly and ahead of schedule and the interior looked good, according to SpaceX, the private company that built and operates the Dragon. The crew will now begin unloading the more than 1,000 pounds of cargo that Dragon brought to the space station, NASA says. The cargo includes food, clothing, computer equipment, and supplies for science experiments. They then plan to reload Dragon with experiments and cargo for its return trip to Earth. Dragon is scheduled to splash into the Pacific Ocean several hundred miles west of California on May 31, according to NASA. Dragon launched Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, Florida, aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. NASA collaborated with SpaceX on every part of the mission and gave final authorization for the flight. Dragon reached the station Friday and was “captured” by the station’s robotic arm just before 10 a.m. ET. Over the next two hours, the crew maneuvered the arm to bring the capsule in to berth and attach it to the station. The mission, hailed by NASA Administrator Charles Bolden as a step toward a new future of private innovation in the space industry, comes as government funding of the space program decreases. It also marked the culmination of six years of preparation to bring commercial flights to the space station after the retirement of NASA’s space shuttle fleet last year, which leaves the United States with no means of independently sending humans into space. NASA relies on the Russian space agency to ferry U.S. astronauts to orbit. In December 2008, NASA announced it had chosen SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch vehicle and Dragon spacecraft to resupply the International Space Station after the shuttle’s retirement. The $1.6 billion contract involves a minimum of 12 flights, with an option to order more missions for additional cost, according to SpaceX. SpaceX was created by PayPal founder Elon Musk and is one of a few of private companies receiving NASA funds to develop the commercial transport of astronauts into space. Musk has said the commercial program — with fixed-price, pay-for-performance contracts — makes fiscal sense for taxpayers and fosters competition among companies on reliability, capability, and cost. The company is developing a heavy-lift rocket with twice the cargo capability of the space shuttle and hopes to build a spacecraft that could carry a crew to Mars.