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<\/a>More than 5,800 pounds of new science experiments<\/a> and crew supplies are on their way to the International Space Station<\/a> after the successful launch of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft on Thursday. Dragon blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:44 p.m.<\/a> and reached orbit less than nine minutes later beginning its day-and-a-half-long trip to the orbital lab.<\/p>\n The U.S. space freighter is scheduled to dock automatically to the Harmony module<\/a>\u2019s forward port at 11:20 a.m. on Saturday. NASA astronauts Bob Hines<\/a> and Jessica Watkins<\/a> will be on duty monitoring Dragon\u2019s automated rendezvous and docking. NASA TV, on the agency\u2019s app<\/a> and website<\/a>, will begin live coverage at 10 a.m. as Dragon approaches the station for a monthlong stay.<\/p>\n Hines and Watkins along with Expedition 67<\/a> Flight Engineers Kjell Lindgren<\/a> of NASA and Samantha Cristoforetti<\/a> of ESA (European Space Agency) called down to Mission Control today and discussed Saturday morning\u2019s arrival of Dragon. The quartet also spent Friday configuring station systems to accommodate the critical research Dragon is delivering including a human immune system study<\/a>, a protein production investigation<\/a>, and a cancer treatment experiment<\/a>.<\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following the\u00a0space station blog<\/a>,\u00a0@space_station<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/a>\u00a0on Twitter, as well as the\u00a0ISS Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0ISS Instagram<\/a>\u00a0accounts.<\/p>\n Get weekly video highlights at:\u00a0http:\/\/jscfeatures.jsc.nasa.gov\/videoupdate\/<\/a><\/p>\n Get the latest from NASA delivered every week. Subscribe here:\u00a0www.nasa.gov\/subscribe<\/a><\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" More than 5,800 pounds of new science experiments and crew supplies are on their way to the International Space Station after the successful launch of the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft on Thursday. Dragon blasted off from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:44 p.m. and reached orbit less than nine minutes later beginning its \u2026 Continue reading
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