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  • SpaceX Dragon Lifts Off to Resupply Station Crew

    The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Dragon atop launches on time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

    At 2:45 a.m. EDT, over 5,000 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched to the International Space Station aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the company’s 33rd commercial resupply services mission for NASA. The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

  • SpaceX Dragon Cargo Mission Counts Down to Launch

    A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, with the company’s Dragon spacecraft, stands in a vertical position at Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, March 19, 2024

    NASA’s coverage is underway on NASA+, Netflix,Amazon Prime, and more for the launch of SpaceX’s 33rd commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station. Learn how to watch NASA content through a variety of platforms, including social media. 

  • Expedition 73 Studies How Space Affects the Brain and the Body

    The warm city lights of Southeast Asia streak below the silvery U.S. segment of the International Space Station in this 30-second exposure from the orbital outpost as it soared 259 miles above China at approximately 10:39 a.m. local time. Near the top center, is the partially obscured SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that docked to the Harmony module's forward port carrying NASA's Crew-11 mission.

    Maintaining sense of balance and protecting immunity in space were the top human research experiments aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday. The Expedition 73 crew members also practiced medical emergency procedures, continued more Earth observations, and finished packing a cargo craft.

  • Health Monitoring, Exercise Science Keep Station Crew Busy

    NASA astronaut and Expedition 73 Flight Engineer Mike Fincke inserts a cryogenic storage unit, called a dewar, containing blood samples collected from a crew member into a science freezer for preservation and later analysis. The Minus Eighty-Degree Laboratory Freezer for International Space Station, or MELFI, is a research freezer that maintains experiment samples at ultra-cold temperatures in microgravity.

    Immunity and exercise science continued aboard the International Space Station on Wednesday giving doctors insight into how the human body adjusts to weightlessness. The Expedition 73 crew is also packing a cargo craft before the end of its mission and maintaining a variety of orbital lab hardware.

  • Crew Sets Up Space Hardware to Make Fiber Optics and Brew Lunar Sake

    The International Space Station soars 259 miles above Cambodia in this long-duration photograph revealing star trails, lightning storms, and the city lights of Southeast Asia streaking below.

    Fiber manufacturing and lunar brewing wrapped up the research week aboard the International Space Station helping NASA and its international partners promote the commercialization of space. The Expedition 73 crew also continued its space biology studies to keep astronauts healthy while packing a resupply ship for its upcoming departure and maintaining life support systems.