SpaceX Launches Dragon Cargo Ship to Space Station
SpaceX successfully launched a Dragon supply ship to the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday evening from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The company said the spacecraft entered the planned orbit and opened its solar arrays as scheduled. It’s the third trip to ISS for this particular spacecraft.
The Falcon 9 first stage touched down back at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
Dragon will arrive at the space station on Saturday morning.
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Great work guys! It’s nice to see a ‘shuttle’ flying again.
yes…we have finally made it back to reusable Gemini with a much more capable design…
Reusable Gemini! Yes! That’s better than a STS comparison. I’ll use that in its place. You are so right, the trunk is very much like the Gemini service module.
the main limitation of Gemini was that the “shape” of the capsule made docking “difficult” in terms of transfering crew folks. the schemes to do it out the rear were awkward and kind of negated the use of the “rear” as a kind of trunk. but the value of the capsule, its improvements was never really explored… we are finally back there with a much more capable shape
I look forward to Dragon2/Starliner, followed closely by Starship.
Weird to think of launch something almost bigger than the ISS.
Dang it to hell.
I was in Florida (Orlando and then Stuart) watching for this, until thrs AM.
I helped build Mars Global Surveyor and never got to witness anything.
Missed this one by hours.
Hopefully, my family and I will be able to watch at least starship launch in the next year or so.
Trying to catch a launch can be a frustrating business for non locals. I used to live near KSC and got to see lots of launches, a few times ones I hadn’t even been aware of beforehand. Since then, I’ve caught none, really (I have seen the crazy plumes over LA from Vandenberg launches, but that’s not the same as witnessing a launch).
Better luck next time! You’ll get one