NASA, SpaceX launch CRS-31 cargo mission to International Space Station on Monday night
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- Nov 04, 2024
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Next, the Dragon is scheduled to autonomously dock to the forward port of the space station’s Harmony module about 10:15 a.m. Tuesday.
The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the space station until December. After it departs, it's scheduled splash down off the Florida coast.
Monday's mission marks the Falcon 9 first-stage booster’s fifth flight, SpaceX reported. The booster previously launched Crew-8, Polaris Dawn and a pair of Starlink missions.
Following stage separation, the booster landed back at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station roughly 7 minutes, 49 seconds after liftoff — generating Central Florida sonic booms.
NASA officials noted that Saturday marked the 24-year anniversary of the agency and its partners maintaining a permanent human presence in space.
"To put this in perspective, this means that anyone under the age of 24 has never lived a day without humans continuously living in space," Dana Weigel, NASA's ISS program manager, said in a Saturday tweet.
"After more than a quarter of a century of operations, the space station continues to serve as a world-class laboratory, experiencing many firsts, scientific breakthroughs, and improving life on our home planet every day," Weigel said.
Next on the Eastern Range calendar, SpaceX will try again to launch the Starlink 6-77 mission on Wednesday afternoon. New target time: 3:39 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The original countdown was halted Sunday because of a helium issue with that Falcon 9 rocket's first stage.
For the latest news and launch schedule from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, visit floridatoday.com/space.
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