SpaceX Falcon 9 and Dragon Poised for Launch

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is in position at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in the early morning May 3, 2019. The launch vehicle will boost a Dragon cargo module to the International Space Station on the company’s 17th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-17) mission for NASA. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:11 a.m. EDT. Photo credit: NASA
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is in position at Space Launch Complex 40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida in the early morning May 3, 2019. The launch vehicle will boost a Dragon cargo module to the International Space Station on the company’s 17th Commercial Resupply Services (CRS-17) mission for NASA. Liftoff is scheduled for 3:11 a.m. EDT. Photo credit: NASA

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is topped by the company’s uncrewed Dragon spacecraft. Dragon is filled with more than 5,500 pound of supplies and payloads, including more than 250 science and research investigations that will take place onboard the International Space Station.

It is not this spacecraft’s first trip to the space station. The CRS-17 Dragon visited the orbiting laboratory in August 2017 during CRS-12.

Read more about the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon spacecraft

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