Media Credit: Image courtesy of NASA/Frank Michaux
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is loaded with about 5,000 pounds of experiments and materials for the ISS including over 20 separate ISS National Lab payloads encompassing over 40 investigations in a variety of scientific disciplines to be conducted on the orbiting laboratory in the coming months.
Mission: SpaceX CRS-9
Launch date: Monday, July 18, 2016 at 12:45 a.m. EDT
Location: Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida
The SpaceX Dragon capsule berthed with the ISS this morning loaded with over 20 separate ISS National Lab payloads encompassing over 40 investigations payloads.
The 9th resupply mission for the ISS by SpaceX contains a variety of research payloads sponsored by the ISS National Lab. Over 20 payloads representing 40 investigations are part of this resupply mission.
The mission patch developed by Marvel represents all payloads intended for the International Space Station U.S. National Laboratory in calendar year 2016.
What if tools were available allowing researchers to analyze their samples in orbit, obtain the results in near real time, and make adjustments to their experiment while it is still onboard the ISS?
Through the award-winning Tomatosphere program, students cultivate and study seeds exposed to spaceflight conditions onboard the ISS National Lab.
This investigation, which launched to the ISS on SpaceX CRS-9, could benefit heart patients on Earth as well as astronauts on future long-duration spaceflight missions.
When SpaceX CRS-9 berthed with the ISS on July 20, it carried a payload poised to ask a question—specifically, can the ISS serve as a commercially viable platform for maritime tracking?
