SpaceX Dragon Counts Down to Launch and Resupply Station
Live launch coverage is underway on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel for the launch of SpaceX’s 34th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of online platforms, including social media.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to lift off at 6:50 p.m. EDT aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Filled with nearly 6,500 pounds of food, supplies, and equipment, Dragon will arrive at the orbiting outpost at approximately 7:35 a.m. Thursday, May 14, and dock autonomously to the forward port of the orbiting laboratory’s Harmony module.
In addition to cargo for the crew aboard the space station, Dragon will deliver several new experiments, including a project to determine how well Earth-based simulators mimic microgravity conditions, a bone scaffold made from wood that could produce new treatments for fragile bone conditions like osteoporosis, and equipment to help researchers evaluate how red blood cells and the spleen change in space. The Dragon spacecraft also will carry a new instrument to study charged particles around the Earth that can impact power grids and satellites, an investigation that could provide a fundamental understanding of how planets form, and a instrument designed to take highly accurate measurements of sunlight reflected by Earth and the Moon.
Watch NASA’s live rendezvous and docking coverage beginning at 8:20 a.m. on NASA+, Amazon Prime, and the agency’s YouTube channel.
Learn more about space station operations by follow @NASASpaceOps and @space_station on X, as well as the International Space Station’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.
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Mark A. Garcia
