SpaceX Launches 25th Resupply Mission to International Space Station

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Hawthorne-based On Thursday night, SpaceX launched its 25th resupply mission to the International Space Station with roughly three tonnes of supplies, experiments, and equipment.

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Officials at the Kennedy Space Center were forecasting a 70% likelihood of acceptable weather as of Wednesday night.

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At at 5:45 p.m. California time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Cape Canaveral in Florida

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carrying a Cargo Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of a NASA ongoing resupply contract.

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After the launch, SpaceX landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on a barge floating in the Atlantic Ocean with the designation "A Shortfall of Gravitas".

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The rocket used for the launch on Thursday's first stage has completed four prior missions

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The Dragon spacecraft that is transporting the supplies has already made two trips to the International Space Station.

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At 8:20 a.m. on Saturday, California time, the Dragon spacecraft is expected to arrive at the space station.

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A NASA experiment created at Pasadena's Jet Propulsion Laboratory is one of the nearly 5,800 pounds of cargo carried by the Dragon

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It is intended to monitor atmospheric dust and assess how it might impact the environment and climate.

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Over the course of a year, data will be collected by the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation, or EMIT, instrument to determine the chemical makeup of dust all over the world.

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