NASA's SpaceX 32nd Cargo Resupply Mission: Falcon 9 Launch | NASA Kennedy

NASA's SpaceX 32nd Cargo Resupply Mission: Falcon 9 Launch | NASA Kennedy

    

At 4:15 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), April 21, 2025, about 6,700 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo launched to the International Space Station on the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the company’s 32nd commercial resupply services mission for NASA. The spacecraft lifted off on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. 

Dragon will arrive at the orbiting outpost at 8:20 a.m. Tuesday, April 22, and dock autonomously to the zenith, space-facing port of the space station’s Harmony module.

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.

Watch launch replay here: 
https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=crs-32

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.

Image Credit: Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX)
Capture Date: April 21, 2025

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