NASA's SpaceX 32nd Cargo Resupply Mission: Falcon 9 | Kennedy Space Center
Experiments focused on vision-based navigation, spacecraft air quality, materials for drug and product manufacturing, and advancing plant growth with less reliance on photosynthesis are bound for the International Space Station via the NASA and SpaceX 32nd commercial resupply services mission.
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 4:15 a.m. EDT, Monday, April 21, 2025, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station. This is the 32nd SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the orbiting laboratory for the agency.
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=crs-32
Filled with about 6,700 pounds of supplies, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Along with food and essential equipment for the crew, Dragon is delivering a variety of science experiments, including a demonstration of refined maneuvers for free-floating robots. Dragon also carries an enhanced air quality monitoring system that could protect crew members on exploration missions to the Moon and Mars, and two atomic clocks to examine fundamental physics concepts, such as relativity, and test worldwide synchronization of precision timepieces.
The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the International Space Station until May, when it will depart and return to Earth with research and cargo, splashing down off the coast of California.
Release Date: April 20, 2025
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