{"id":444803,"date":"2026-05-12T10:34:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444803\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T10:34:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T10:34:09","slug":"spacex-plans-tuesday-launch-of-dragon-cargo-mission-for-nasa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/444803\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Plans Tuesday Launch of Dragon Cargo Mission for NASA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX plans to launch its 34th Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-34) on Tuesday, sending a Dragon cargo spacecraft to the International Space Station under a NASA resupply contract, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/spacecoastdaily.com\/2026\/05\/spacex-set-to-launch-crs-34-mission-tuesday-night-from-cape-canaveral\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Space Coast Daily<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off at 7:16 p.m. ET from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A backup launch window is set for Wednesday at 6:50 p.m. local time.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the Dragon spacecraft\u2019s sixth mission to and from the station, having previously flown CRS-22, CRS-24, CRS-27, CRS-30, and CRS-32.<\/p>\n<p>The spacecraft is expected to take about 38 hours to reach the ISS and will dock autonomously on Thursday at around 9:50 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 first-stage booster will also make its sixth flight. After stage separation, SpaceX plans to land the booster at Landing Zone 40 at Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans to launch its 34th Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-34) on Tuesday, sending a Dragon cargo spacecraft&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[193486,61,60,91,82,247,2306],"class_list":["post-444803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-dragon-cargo","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-nasa","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}