SpaceX successfully launches another cargo load to the International Space Station for NASA
The Falcon rocket blasted off with 1,950 kilograms of equipment and experiments for the International Space Station.
"And the Falcon has landed for the 50th time in SpaceX history!" SpaceX engineer Jessica Anderson announced amid cheers at Mission Control. “What an amazing live view all the way to touchdown.”It's the 20th station delivery for SpaceX, which has launched nearly 45,360 kg of goods to the orbiting outpost and returned nearly that much back to Earth since it began shipments in 2012.
Among the science experiments flying: an analysis of running shoe cushioning in weightlessness by Adidas, a water droplet study by Delta Faucet Co. striving for better showerhead water conservation, 3D models of heart and intestinal tissue, and 320 snippets of grape vines by Space Cargo Unlimited, the same Luxembourg startup that sent 12 bottles of red wine to the space station last November for a year of high-altitude aging.
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