SpaceX Dragon Delivers NASA Cargo to Space Station After 1 Day Delay

Thursday, February 23, 2017 - 1:18pm

I know many like myself, who watched the SpacX Dragon Rocket Launch over the weekend. Of course there were some delays as the initial Saturday launch was aborted with 13 seconds to go due to a mechanical issue. Then a second issue occurred

The SpaceX Dragon cargo ship filled with more than 2 tons of NASA supplies has arrived at the International Space Station (ISS) after a one-day delay due to a navigation software glitch.

The Dragon space capsule was captured today (Feb. 23) by the station's robotic arm at 5:44 a.m. EST (0944 GMT) by astronauts Shane Kimbrough of NASA and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency. Dragon is delivering about 5,500 lbs. (2,500 kilograms) of supplies for the station's six-person crew. That haul includes science gear for more than 250 experiments on the station, NASA officials have said. It is SpaceX's tenth delivery mission for NASA under a commercial cargo contract.

 

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