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Three days after a weather delay, SpaceX launched an uncrewed Cargo Dragon on a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral, delivering about 6,500 pounds of supplies and science gear to the ISS for Expedition 74; the first stage landed successfully on its sixth flight, while Dragon will autonomously rendezvous and dock with the station to unload thousands of pounds of crew clothing, hardware and research equipment.
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.