Welcome to NASA’s Countdown Coverage for CRS-7!

CRS-7-rocket-breath-3Good morning from Florida! NASA and SpaceX are moving through the countdown for today’s launch of the seventh cargo resupply mission by SpaceX to the International Space Station. Launch is slated for 10:21 a.m. EDT and the launch teams here and at SpaceX headquarters in Hawthorne, California, are monitoring every step of their procedures. NASA’s Mission Control in Houston also stands ready this morning as the Dragon spacecraft heads to the orbiting laboratory full of supplies and equipment.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 will lift the cargo-laden Dragon off the pad at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to begin CRS-7. It will take only about 10 minutes for the spacecraft to go from standing still on the ground atop the two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, to speeding through space at 17,500 mph on a course toward the space station.

So stay with us this morning as we mark countdown milestones and then follow the Falcon 9 and Dragon from Florida to orbit!

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