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SpaceX supply ship completes journey to space station

February 23, 2017 Stephen Clark

Running a day late after aborting a rendezvous to resolve a navigation glitch, SpaceX’s Dragon cargo craft made a smooth final approach to the International Space Station on Thursday, floating in range of the research lab’s robot arm for capture to deliver 2.7 tons of supplies and research experiments.

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Final experiments added to SpaceX spaceship for station resupply flight

February 17, 2017 Stephen Clark

Engineers clad in clean suits finished stowing last-minute cargo into SpaceX’s Dragon supply ship Friday, including 40 mice and bacterial research specimens, a day before it is scheduled to blast off to the International Space Station in the first flight from the Kennedy Space Center’s historic Apollo-era launch pad 39A since 2011.

News Headlines

  • Live coverage: SpaceX aims for 550th booster landing amid Saturday night flight
    December 13, 2025
  • Study: Current, future megaconstellations risk space-based astronomy
    December 12, 2025
  • SpaceX breaks launch pad turnaround record with flight of Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral
    December 11, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 160th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025
    December 10, 2025
  • SpaceX launches classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office
    December 9, 2025
  • Soyuz safely lands in Kazakhstan
    December 9, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 3,000th Starlink satellite in 2025 on record-setting 32nd flight of Falcon 9 booster
    December 7, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    December 7, 2025
  • International Space Station prepares for new commander, heads into final five years of planned operations
    December 5, 2025
  • SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB
    December 4, 2025
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