CRS-9 (Commercial Resupply Services) mission tagged posts

CRS-9 (Commercial Resupply Services) mission is scheduled to liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 12:45 EDT on Monday. The uncrewed Dragon spacecraft is loaded with about 5,000 lbs of experiments and supplies including a 1,020 lb international docking adapter, which will allow commercial spacecraft to dock to the station when transporting astronauts in the near future as part of our Commercial Crew Program.Experiments launching to the station range from research into the effects of microgravity on the human body, to regulating temperature on spacecraft.

DNA testing aboard the space station typically requires collecting samples and sending them back to Earth to be analyzed...