NASA and SpaceX are targeting 6:33 a.m. EDT, Tuesday, Oct. 13, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment, including the final set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays, to the space station.
NASA also will host a media teleconference on Thursday, Oct. 8 that will preview the cargo resupply flight, as well as provide a post-splashdown update for the agency’s SpaceX Crew-12 mission, which will have returned to Earth from the space station Thursday morning.
Loaded with more than 6,300 pounds of supplies, a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft on a Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Dragon will dock autonomously around 11 a.m. on Thursday, Oct. 15, to the space-facing port of the station’s Harmony module.
The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the space station until mid-November when it will leave the orbiting laboratory and return to Earth with time-critical research and cargo, splashing down off the coast of California.
1:15 p.m.: International Space Station briefing for Crew-12 return, and SpaceX’s 35th Commercial Resupply Services launch with the following participants:.
To participate in the teleconference, media must contact the NASA Johnson Space Center newsroom for call details by 12 p.m. Oct. 8, at: jsccommu@mail.nasa.gov or 281-483-5111.
For questions about countdown coverage, contact the NASA Kennedy Space Center newsroom at 321-867-2468.