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NASA’s SpaceX 33rd Commercial Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking – YouTube
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A SpaceX cargo ship is scheduled to arrive at the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday morning (Aug. 25), and you can watch the rendezvous live.<\/p>\n

A robotic Dragon<\/a> capsule is expected to dock with the station on Monday around 7:30 a.m. EDT (1130 GMT), ending a roughly 29-hour orbital chase.<\/p>\n

You can watch the action live here at Space.com courtesy of NASA, or directly via the agency<\/a>. Coverage will begin at 6 a.m. EDT (1000 GMT) on Monday.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX’s robotic CRS-27 Dragon cargo capsule approaches the International Space Station for docking on March 16, 2023. (Image credit: NASA)<\/p>\n

This Dragon is flying SpaceX’s 33rd mission for NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services program. The flight, known as CRS-33, began with a launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket<\/a> early Sunday morning (Aug. 24).<\/p>\n

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The capsule is carrying about 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of food, supplies and scientific experiments to the astronauts on board the orbiting lab.<\/p>\n

\ufeff”Commercial resupply missions to the International Space Station<\/a> deliver science that helps prove technologies for Artemis<\/a> lunar missions and beyond,” acting NASA Administrator Sean Duffy said in a postlaunch statement<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This flight will test 3D printing metal parts and bioprinting tissue in microgravity \u2014 technology that could give astronauts tools and medical support on future moon and Mars<\/a> missions,” he added.<\/p>\n

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The CRS-33 Dragon’s work won’t be done after docking. The capsule will also help maintain the ISS’ altitude via a series of engine burns \u2014 a necessary step to counter the effects of frictional drag that has been performed primarily by Russian Progress<\/a> cargo vehicles over the years.<\/p>\n

Russia is considering leaving the ISS consortium in 2028<\/a>, two years earlier than the station’s planned end of life. If that happens, the remaining partners will need to rely on other station-boosting means, such as burns by Dragon and Cygnus<\/a>, the robotic cargo ship built by Virginia-based company Northrop Grumman. Both vehicles have already shown their ability to do this job.<\/p>\n

The CRS-33 mission will end in December, when the Dragon \u2014 carrying samples and other scientific gear \u2014 returns to Earth with a splashdown off the coast of California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NASA’s SpaceX 33rd Commercial Resupply Services Rendezvous and Docking – YouTube Watch On A SpaceX cargo ship is…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":94180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-94179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/94180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}