as excitement builds for the launch tonight. Here’s a short time-lapse video of it going vertical.
You can watch the webcast live starting at 4:55pm, and the narrow launch window is at 5:35pm PDT.
From SpaceX: “If all goes as planned, Dragon will arrive at the station on Wednesday, October 10, when it will be grappled and berthed to the complex for an expected two-week visit. Dragon is scheduled to return to Earth on October 28 for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of southern California. Dragon is the only space station cargo craft capable of returning a significant amount of supplies back to Earth, including experiments.
Dragon will be filled with about 1,000 pounds of supplies, including critical materials to support the 166 investigations planned for the station’s Expedition 33 crew, of which 63 will be new. Dragon will return with about 734 pounds of scientific materials, including results from human research, biotechnology, materials and education experiments, as well as about 504 pounds of space station hardware.”
This photo by Todd Huffman; others by me and SpaceX below.
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