This Week @NASA: A Commercial Mission Carries Science to the Space Station

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soars upward after its liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 4:55 p.m. EDT on Thursday, March 21, on the company’s 30th Commercial Resupply Services mission for the agency to the International Space Station. The spacecraft is expected to spend about a month attached to the orbiting outpost before it returns to Earth with research and return cargo, splashing down off the coast of Florida.

to the station includes a study on plant metabolism in space, new sensors to provide 3D mapping capabilities for the station’s free-flying Astrobee robots, and a study that could benefit solar cell technology.

A test version of the universal stage adapter for NASA’s more powerful version of its SLS rocket arrived to Building 4619 at NASA’s Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama, on February 22 from Leidos in Decatur, Alabama. The universal stage adapter will connect the rocket’s upgraded in-space propulsion stage, called the exploration upper stage, to NASA’s Orion spacecraft as part of the evolved Block 1B configuration of the SLS rocket. Credit: NASA/Sam Lott.

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