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Saturday, June 03, 2023

NASA SpaceX CRS-28 Falcon 9 & Dragon Pre-Launch | Kennedy Space Center

NASA SpaceX CRS-28 Falcon 9 & Dragon Pre-Launch | Kennedy Space Center





The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Dragon spacecraft atop is on the pad at Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on June 2, 2023. SpaceX is scheduled to launch its 28th commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station for NASA. Launch is scheduled for no earlier than June 3 at 12:35 p.m. EDT. Dragon will deliver approximately 7,000 pounds of crew supplies, equipment, and science experiments to the orbiting laboratory. Dragon is also carrying two new roll-out solar arrays that will be extracted from its unpressurized trunk about two days after its docking then staged on a pallet attached to the station’s starboard-side truss structure. 

The Dragon spacecraft is expected to spend about a month attached to the orbiting outpost before it returns to Earth with research and return cargo, splashing down off the coast of Florida.


Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Image Date: June 2, 2023


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