Spacex S Crs 21 Mission To The Space Station What S On Spacex’s upgraded dragon spacecraft completed its first cargo resupply mission to and from the international space station, and spacex’s 21st commercial resupply services (crs 21) mission for nasa to date, after successfully returning to earth on wednesday, january 13 at 8:36 p.m. est and becoming the first cargo spacecraft to splash down off the coast of florida. Spacex's dragon crs 21 mission is the first supply ship to dock with the international space station without the help of astronauts, who typically use the station's canadarm2 robotic arm to.
Spacex Crs 21 Mission Overview A two stage falcon 9 rocket blasted off from pad 39a today at nasa’s kennedy space center at 11:17 a.m. edt (1617 gmt), marking the company's 21st cargo mission for nasa and its 24th launch of. On sunday, december 6, spacex launched its twenty first commercial resupply services mission (crs 21), which lifted off from launch complex 39a (lc 39a) at kennedy space center, florida at 11:17 a.m. est, or 16:17 utc. dragon separated from falcon 9’s second stage about eleven minutes after liftoff and autonomously docked to the space station. Under the first round of crs contracts awarded in 2008, northrop (then orbital atk) and spacex delivered more than 93,800 kilograms of cargo to the iss over 31 missions for approximately $6 billion. Spacex crs 21, also known as spx 21, was a commercial resupply service mission to the international space station which launched on 6 december 2020. [1][2] the mission was contracted by nasa and was flown by spacex using a cargo dragon 2. this was the first flight for spacex under nasa's crs phase 2 contract awarded in january 2016.
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