A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule carrying greater than 3 tons of provides will arrive on the Worldwide Area Station (ISS) on Thursday morning (March 16), and you may watch the off-Earth rendezvous reside.
The robotic Dragon, which launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station on Tuesday night (March 14), is scheduled to reach on the ISS Thursday at 7:52 a.m. EDT (1152 GMT).
You possibly can watch the motion reside right here at Area.com, courtesy of NASA, or straight through the company (opens in new tab). Protection is predicted to start out at 6:15 a.m. EDT (1015 GMT).
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The present mission is known as CRS-27, as a result of it is the twenty seventh robotic cargo flight to the Worldwide Area Station that SpaceX is conducting for NASA. (“CRS” stands for “industrial resupply providers.”)
SpaceX holds one other contract to fly astronauts to the orbiting lab for NASA and lately launched the sixth operational crewed mission beneath that deal. That four-person flight, generally known as Crew-6, arrived on the ISS on March 3.
Dragon is carrying up almost 6,300 kilos (2,860 kilograms) of provides on CRS-27. Among the many cargo is automobile {hardware}, spacewalk tools, greater than 60 completely different scientific experiments and a few treats for the inhabitants of the orbiting lab.
“The crews requested some recent fruit and refrigerated cheeses,” Phil Dempsey, NASA’s Worldwide Area Station Program transportation integration supervisor, mentioned throughout a CRS-27 prelaunch press convention on Monday (March 13). “So on board are apples, blueberries, grapefruit, oranges [and] cherry tomatoes, in addition to a couple of completely different cheeses.”
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