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SpaceX’s CRS-34 Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral was scrubbed due to adverse weather, including anvil clouds and lightning warnings. Brevard County deactivated its launch operations support after the scrub, and SpaceX now targets Friday, May 15, for liftoff around 6:05 p.m. ET, with fueling underway and the countdown halted with 28 seconds remaining.
SpaceX will launch the Dragon cargo capsule atop a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral at 6:50 p.m. ET on May 13, delivering about 6,500 pounds of supplies and experiments to NASA’s ISS payload mission CRS-34. The Dragon is expected to dock autonomously with the Harmony module on May 14 around 7:35 a.m. EDT, marking the sixth flight for this Dragon capsule. The mission includes research such as Earth-based simulator validation, a wooden bone scaffold, and studies of red blood cells and spleen function in microgravity. After roughly a month attached to the ISS, the Dragon will return to Earth in mid-June; SpaceX’s booster should land at Cape Canaveral about eight minutes after liftoff. CRS-34 is SpaceX’s 34th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the ISS, and Dragon remains the only cargo vehicle capable of returning cargo to Earth.