{"id":115130,"date":"2020-10-26T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-prepares-upgraded-cargo-dragon-for-nasas-next-resupply-mission-to-the-space-station"},"modified":"2020-10-26T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2020-10-27T01:23:13","slug":"spacex-prepares-upgraded-cargo-dragon-for-nasas-next-resupply-mission-to-the-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/spacex-prepares-upgraded-cargo-dragon-for-nasas-next-resupply-mission-to-the-space-station","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX prepares upgraded cargo Dragon for NASA\u2019s next resupply mission to the Space Station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-prepares-upgraded-cargo-dragon-for-nasas-next-resupply-mission-to-the-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing an upgraded cargo Dragon capsule for NASA\u2019s next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It will be SpaceX\u2019s 21st cargo mission under the agency\u2019s second Commercial Resupply Services contract to deliver equipment and supplies needed to perform science research at the orbiting laboratory.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has completed 20 cargo Dragon missions to and from the space station. The company has delivered over 95,000 pounds of supplies and returned 75,000 pounds. \u201cCargo resupply from U.S. companies ensures a national capability to deliver critical science research to the space station, significantly increasing NASA\u2019s ability to conduct new investigations at the only laboratory in space,\u201d the agency wrote in a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will be the first resupply mission that will utilize SpaceX\u2019s upgraded version of the cargo Dragon capsule, that is capable of carrying 50% more payload mass. This week NASA announced it targets to conduct the mission no earlier than December. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying Dragon will liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX is preparing an upgraded cargo Dragon capsule for NASA\u2019s next resupply mission to the International Space Station (ISS). It will be SpaceX\u2019s 21st cargo mission under the agency\u2019s second Commercial Resupply Services contract to deliver equipment and supplies needed to perform science research at the orbiting laboratory. SpaceX has completed 20 cargo Dragon missions [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1514],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-115130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-space-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}