Friday, December 15, 2017
SpaceX Plans Launch For NASA This Morning
Hawthorne-based SpaceX is getting set to launch a mission to the International Space Station this morning, at 7:36 a.m. PST, from Cape Canaveral, Florida. SpaceX is launching a resupply mission to the ISS, the Commercial Resupply Services 13 (CRS-13) mission, in what it hopes will be the first time it will be sending a previously launched Falcon 9 and Dragon spacecraft for NASA. The first stage of the Falcon 9 being used in the launch this morning previously was launched into space in June, for NASA's CRS-11 mission; the Dragon spacecraft is the same one that SpaceX put into space in April of 2015 for NASA's CRS-6 mission. According to SpaceX, this launch will deliver about 4,800 pounds of cargo to the ISS; the Dragon is expected to be docked at the ISS for a month, before it will splash down in Baja California. Live SpaceX stream of the launch embedded below.