SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft is pictured approaching the International Space Station ahead of a robotic capture on Thursday to mark the delivery of two and a half metric tons of critical science cargo, supplies and hardware to support a busy summer of research aboard the orbiting laboratory with over 300 studies planned for the next half year.
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The first stage of a Falcon 9 rocket is pictured during its propulsive landing at Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone-1, eight minutes after the rocket’s first launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A with the Dragon SpX-10 resupply craft headed to the International Space Station.
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Kennedy’s historic Launch Complex 39 returned to rocket launch operations on Sunday with a most impressive liftoff of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket – ushering in a new era of commercial launch operations from the storied space center.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands tall at Launch Complex 39A, awaiting its first launch from the Kennedy Space Center that will mark the revival of the historic LC-39A launch site that supported NASA’s Apollo missions to the lunar surface and the majority of Space Shuttle launches.
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Late load payloads are prepared at the Kennedy Space Sensor to be loaded into the Dragon SpX-10 cargo craft inside 24 hours to the vehicle’s launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket.
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