5,000 pounds of cargo on way to ISS
24 Sept 2014 4:19 AM IST
NASA late Sunday sent a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft skyward laden with 5,000 pounds of scientific equipment and supplies destined for use by the crew of the International Space Station (ISS).
The launch began a two-day wait for the space station that is scheduled to end Tuesday morning when European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman will reach out to the uncrewed Dragon with the station’s robot arm and manoeuvre the capsule to latch onto a port of the station.
The station crew will unload the equipment and supplies inside the Dragon, including a glovebox-sized habitat holding 20 mice that will be used for microgravity research into bone density.
‘This launch kicks off a very busy time for the space station,’ said Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS.
The launch began a two-day wait for the space station that is scheduled to end Tuesday morning when European Space Agency astronaut Alexander Gerst and NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman will reach out to the uncrewed Dragon with the station’s robot arm and manoeuvre the capsule to latch onto a port of the station.
The station crew will unload the equipment and supplies inside the Dragon, including a glovebox-sized habitat holding 20 mice that will be used for microgravity research into bone density.
‘This launch kicks off a very busy time for the space station,’ said Sam Scimemi, director of the ISS.
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