Sunday, May 5, 2019

SpaceX Delivers Another Cargo Craft To ISS

Hawthorne-based SpaceX successfully delivered another Dragon cargo spacecraft into space on Saturday, to delivery supplies to the International Space Station, in it's 40th successful launch from Florida, the company said over the weekend. The cargo spacecraft--which just docked with the ISS this morning--is the 17th resupply mission to the ISS. SpaceX said the CRS-17 mission carries more than 5,500 pounds of supplies and payloads, including critical materials to directly support more than 250 science and research investigations. SpaceX has three more, resupply missions to the ISS under contract. As part of the launch, SpaceX also successfully landed the Falcon 9's first stage on its drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic. (Image: SpaceX Dragon CRS-17, right before docking with the International Space Station this morning, via NASA)