By Nneka Nwogwugwu
While the International Space Station was traveling about 260 miles over the Western Australia, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft autonomously docked to the forward-facing port of the orbiting laboratory’s Harmony module at 10:30 a.m. EDT, Monday, August 30.
Flight Engineers Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA monitored the operations.
SpaceX’s 23rd contracted cargo resupply mission with NASA to the International Space Station delivered more than 4,800 pounds of science, research, crew supplies, and vehicle hardware, to the orbital laboratory and its crew.
This is the third mission under SpaceX’s Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with NASA. Launch was targeted for Saturday, August 28 at 3:37 a.m. EDT, but was scrubbed due to weather. Instead, it launched on Sunday, August 29 at 3:14 a.m, Scitech reports.