Dragon capsule delivers 7,300 pounds of cargo to International Space StationJune 5, 2021 Stephen Clark [SFN]
Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy captured this photo of SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft approaching the International Space Station on Saturday. Credit: Oleg Novitskiy/RoscosmosWrapping up a two-day transit from a launch pad in Florida, a SpaceX Dragon capsule autonomously linked up with the International Space Station Saturday with more than 7,300 pounds of cargo, including new solar arrays, crew supplies, and experiments looking at how spaceflight affects the biology of tardigrades and baby squid.
The tardigrades and squid are part of scientific investigations to examine biological changes caused by microgravity might affect humans. The two solar array wings will augment the space station’s aging electrical grid.
After a smooth rendezvous, the Cargo Dragon spaceship docked with the upper port of the space station’s Harmony module at 5:08 a.m. EDT (0908 GMT) as the orbiting complex soared 258 miles (415 kilometers) over the South Pacific Ocean.
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