U.S. Commercial Cargo Craft Arrives at the International Space Station

U.S. Com­mer­cial Car­go Craft Arrives at the Inter­na­tion­al Space Station



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The SpaceX Fal­con 9 rock­et launched from the Kennedy Space Cen­ter, Flori­da Aug. 14, send­ing an unpilot­ed Drag­on car­go vehi­cle on a deliv­ery run to the Inter­na­tion­al Space Sta­tion. Loaded with more than three tons of sup­plies and sci­en­tif­ic inves­ti­ga­tions, the Drag­on is sched­uled to arrive at the sta­tion on Aug. 16 where it will be cap­tured by Expe­di­tion 52 crewmem­bers Jack Fis­ch­er of NASA and Pao­lo Nespoli of the Euro­pean Space Agency oper­at­ing the station’s Canadarm2 robot­ic arm. Drag­on will spend about a month attached to the Earth-fac­ing port of the Har­mo­ny module.



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