SpaceX launches NASA’s resupply mission to International Space Station
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- Nov 04, 2024
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER â SpaceX successfully launched nearly 6,000 pounds of supplies, food and experiments to the International Space Station on Monday night.
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Almost 6,000 pounds of supplies, food and experiments will be sent up
Falcon 9 rocket is set to leave Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center About the mission
This mission, 31st Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-31), will see a wide-array of items being sent up, according to NASA.
Once this Dragon autonomously docks with the space stationâs Harmony module, the seven astronauts and cosmonauts will be digging through almost 6,000 pounds of experiments, supplies and food.
And those experiments will keep the Expedition 72 quite busy. An expedition is the current crew onboard the International Space Station.
âIn addition to food, supplies, and equipment for the crew, Dragon will deliver several new experiments, including the Coronal Diagnostic Experiment, to examine solar wind and how it forms. Dragon also delivers Antarctic moss to observe the combined effects of cosmic radiation and microgravity on plants. Other investigations aboard include a device to test cold welding of metals in microgravity, and an investigation that studies how space impacts different materials,â described NASA.
This Dragon will not be staying on the ISS for long, as it will undock in December for a splashdown off the coast of Florida. The details of that undocking and splashdown have not been released.
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