Overview
- The Falcon 9, which lifted off Friday at 6:05 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral following earlier weather holds, is sending SpaceX’s CRS-34 Cargo Dragon to the International Space Station.
- Dragon is set to dock to the station’s Harmony forward port around 7 a.m. EDT on Sunday, May 17.
- Capsule C209 is on its sixth flight, a first for Cargo Dragon, with the booster returning to Landing Zone 40.
- The 6,500 pounds of cargo include studies of microgravity simulators, a wood-based bone scaffold, red blood cell and spleen changes, and a charged-particle instrument.
- The spacecraft will stay until mid-June before bringing time-sensitive research back for a splashdown off California.