The SpaceX Dragon will lift off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday night.
WASHINGTON — A NASA and SpaceX launch that will restock the International Space Station with about 6,500 pounds of cargo is scheduled for Tuesday night.
The SpaceX Dragon will lift off aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at around 7:16 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time. And you can catch all the excitement from wherever you are.
The launch will be available on this station’s streaming app, our free streaming platform available through Roku, Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV and other smart TVs and platforms. The coverage begins around 7 p.m. EDT.
The launch will also be streaming on NASA+, Amazon Prime and the NASA YouTube channel, as well as the official NASA X, Facebook and Instagram pages.
“This mission includes everything from water purification hardware to research that helps us better understand space weather,” Bill Spetch, an operations and integration manager at NASA, explained during a teleconference on Monday.
The launch and the equipment inside the Dragon spacecraft will also aid research into treatments for osteoporosis and studies into charged particles around the Earth and their impact on power grids.
The spacecraft is expected to dock at the ISS on Thursday morning at around 9:50 a.m EDT. The arrival coverage for that event begins Thursday at 8:20 a.m.
The Dragon spacecraft will then remain at the space station until mid-June, when it is expected to splash down off California’s Pacific Coast.
As of Tuesday, there were seven astronauts aboard the International Space Station from two missions. Among them are three Americans, three Russians and French astronaut Sophie Adenot.