WATCH: Launch of SpaceX cargo mission to ISS
SpaceX launched NASA’s SpaceX CRS-22 commercial cargo mission to the International Space Station.
It was the second cargo resupply mission on the company’s upgraded version of its Dragon spacecraft and launched at 1:29 p.m. ET Thursday on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Dragon’s pressurized capsule will be delivering a variety of research experiments. It will dock on Saturday.
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