NASA CRS-34 Cargo Dragon Spacecraft Arrival | International Space Station

NASA CRS-34 Cargo Dragon Spacecraft Arrival | International Space Station

A SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft with its nose cone open to reveal its docking mechanism, approaches the International Space Station

NASA astronaut and Expedition 74 flight engineer Jack Hathaway is pictured inside the vestibule between the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft and the International Space Station’s forward port on the Harmony module. Moments later, Hathaway would open the Dragon’s hatch and begin unloading nearly 6,500 pounds of food, supplies, and equipment for the Expedition 74 crew. 

International Space Station configuration as of May 17, 2026: Six spaceships are parked at the space station including the SpaceX CRS-34 Dragon, the SpaceX Crew-12 Dragon, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus XL, the Soyuz MS-28 crew ship, and the Progress 94 and 95 resupply ships

Expedition 74 emblem

At 6:37 a.m. EDT on May 17, 2026, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module, carrying nearly 6,500 pounds of food, supplies, and equipment for the Expedition 74 crew. This is the 34th SpaceX commercial resupply services mission to the space station for NASA.

In addition to cargo for the crew aboard the space station, Dragon is delivering several new experiments, including a project  to determine how well Earth-based simulators mimic microgravity conditions, a bone scaffold made from wood that could produce new treatments for fragile bone conditions like osteoporosis, and equipment to help researchers evaluate how red blood cells and the spleen change in space. The Dragon spacecraft also will carry a new instrument to study charged particles around the Earth that can impact power grids and satellites, an investigation that could provide a fundamental understanding of how planets form, and an  instrument designed to take highly accurate measurements of sunlight reflected by Earth and the Moon.

NASA's Commercial Resupply Missions:
https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/commercial-resupply/

Follow Expedition 74:
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 74 Crew
Station Commander: Sergey-Kud Sverchkov (Russia)
Roscosmos (Russia) Flight Engineers: Andrey Fedyaev, Sergei Mikaev

European Space Agency Flight Engineer: Sophie Adenot

NASA Flight Engineers: Jessica Meir, Jack Hathaway, Chris Williams

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada.

Image Credits: NASA/Jessica Meir/Chris Williams, ESA/Sophie Adenot
Date: May 17, 2026

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