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NASA and SpaceX are targeting 2:45 a.m. EDT, Sunday, Aug. 24, for the next launch to deliver science investigations, supplies, and equipment to the International Space Station.
SpaceX and NASA are aiming to launch the next resupply mission − known as CRS-33 − to the ISS no earlier than 2:45 a.m. Sunday, Aug. 24 from Launch Complex 40 in Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. As the name suggests, the mission is the 33rd resupply mission by SpaceX for NASA.
Following a successful launch of NASA's SpaceX 33rd commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound for the International Space Station.
Crew-11 will send NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, along with Kimiya Yui of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and cosmonaut Oleg Platonov to the ISS for a roughly six-month stay. Cardman is the mission's commander, Fincke is the pilot and Yui and Platonov are mission specialists.
NASA is ready for its next launch attempt of its TOMEX+ sounding rocket mission to take a peak at the Earth's atmosphere.
SpaceX called off a launch attempt Sunday after detecting a leak in the plumbing that flows super-cold liquid oxygen propellant into the rocket. Technicians fixed the problem in time for another countdown 24 hours later, but the risk of lightning in the area prevented Starship from lifting off Monday evening.
Wednesday and Thursday's Starlink mission liftoffs will become the 72nd and 73rd orbital launches of the year thus far from Florida's Space Coast.
This Dragon is flying SpaceX's 33rd mission for NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program. The flight, known as CRS-33, began with a launch atop a Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday morning (Aug. 24). The capsule is carrying about 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of food, supplies and scientific experiments to the astronauts on board the orbiting lab.