Dragon Separates from Second Stage

SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft separates from the Falcon 9 rocket's second stage during NASA’s SpaceX 27th commercial resupply services mission.
SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft separates from the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage during NASA’s SpaceX 27th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station on March 14, 2023. Dragon will rendezvous with the space station March 16 at approximately 7:52 a.m. EDT. Credit: NASA

SpaceX’s uncrewed Dragon spacecraft has separated from the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage, as the spacecraft continues its journey to the International Space Station to deliver critical supplies, equipment, and material to support multiple science and research experiments that will take place aboard the orbiting laboratory.

Dragon is expected to arrive at the space station around 7:52 a.m. EDT Thursday, March 16, docking to the station’s Harmony port – recently vacated by SpaceX’s crewed Dragon, named Endurance, which returned NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 crew members Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Koichi Wakata, and Anna Kikina to Earth on March 11.