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Live coverage: Dragon cargo craft arrives at space station

April 13, 2015 Stephen Clark

Loaded with mice, plant specimens and the International Space Station’s first espresso machine, a SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule arrived at the complex Friday with a fresh delivery of supplies. ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti grappled the spacecraft with the station’s robot arm at 6:55 a.m. EDT (1055 GMT).

Falcon 9 rocket fires engines for prelaunch test

April 11, 2015 Stephen Clark

SpaceX engineers ran through a customary prelaunch countdown test Saturday and fired the Falcon 9 rocket’s nine Merlin main engines at Cape Canaveral ahead of liftoff Monday with 2.2 tons of supplies and experiments for the International Space Station.

SpaceX on track for cargo launch Monday

April 10, 2015 Stephen Clark

Weather forecasters will be on the lookout for rain showers and thunderstorms during Monday’s scheduled launch of a SpaceX cargo craft to the International Space Station, but there is a 60 percent chance conditions at Cape Canaveral will permit liftoff.

SpaceX cargo launch now set for April 13

March 31, 2015 Stephen Clark

The launch of SpaceX’s next resupply run to the International Space Station has been rescheduled for April 13, officials said Tuesday.

SpaceX swaps order of next two Falcon 9 launches

March 21, 2015 Stephen Clark

Confronted with pesky problems in the Falcon 9 rocket’s helium pressurization system, SpaceX has shuffled the order of the next two launches, choosing to go ahead with the liftoff of a Dragon supply ship on a cargo delivery flight to the International Space Station around April 10.

Live coverage: Dragon cargo craft arrives at space station

Falcon 9 rocket fires engines for prelaunch test

SpaceX on track for cargo launch Monday

SpaceX cargo launch now set for April 13

SpaceX swaps order of next two Falcon 9 launches

SpaceX puts off next Falcon 9 launch

Innovative satellites begin maneuvers with all-electric thrusters

Weeks from another launch, SpaceX keeping pace with manifest

NASA orders missions to resupply space station in 2017

Photos: Last look at Sunday’s launch by SpaceX