NASA’s SpaceX-29 commercial resupply mission’s spacecraft successfully docked on the International Space Station on 11 November 2023
NASA successfully launched the SpaceX 29th commercial resupply mission on Thursday, November 9, 2023. The launch mission was done from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
After its successful launch, NASA in its recent updates affirmed that the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft docked at the International Space Station at 5:07 a.m EST on Saturday, 11 November 2023. The Dragon cargo spacecraft docked at ISS’s Harmony module. Jasmin Moghbeli and Loral O’Hara, NASA astronauts monitored the operations from the station.
The cargo spacecraft will be posted at the orbital outpost for a month.
Objective: The objective of the SpaceX-29 commercial resupply mission is to deliver various physical sciences and space biology experiments, alongside other cargo to the ISS. The research materials on board the mission will be used by researchers to study how humans and plants, who need them to sustain, can thrive on space.
Some of the physical and biological sciences investigations that the cargo spacecraft is delivering to the Space Station includes, Plant Water Management-5 and 6 (PWM – 5 and 6), Plant Habitat – 06 (PH – 06), Rodent Research – 20 (RR-20), Bacterial Adhesion and Corrosion (BAC).
Moreover, the spacecraft is also delivering other science experiments like ILLUMA – T (laser communication from space), Atmospheric Wave Experiment or AWE (watching waves in the atmosphere), Gaucho Lung (Respiratory Health Research), and Aquamembrane – 3 (water filtration technology).
