CRS-21 Resupply Mission Launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 | International Space Station
Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft launched to the International Space Station atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 11:02 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Aug. 4, 2024, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida. Cygnus, named the S.S. Francis R. “Dick” Scobee and carrying nearly 8,200 pounds of cargo, is planned to take a day-and-a-half trip around Earth before arriving at the International Space Station for its robotic capture by the Canadian Space Agency's Canadarm2 on Tuesday, Aug. 6.
Aboard the Cygnus spacecraft are tests of water recovery technology, a process to produce stem cells in microgravity, studies of the effects of spaceflight on microorganism DNA, liver tissue growth, and live science demonstrations for students.
This is Northrop Grumman’s 21st commercial resupply mission for NASA.
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Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Capture Date: Aug. 4, 2024
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