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[b]SpaceX CRS-20 Mission Overview[/b] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the CRS-20 Dragon spacecraft to low Earth orbit to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station for NASA. The 20th and last flight under NASA's first Commercial Resupply Services contract with SpaceX, the CRS-20 Dragon will deliver approximately 4,500 pounds (2,000 kilograms) of research, logistics and spare hardware for the Expedition 62/63 crew including: [list][*]Bartolomeo, a new European Space Agency (ESA) facility that will be attached to the outside of the Columbus module to host commercial and institutional payloads; [*]Delta Faucet's Droplet Formation Study to the water flow of Delta Faucet's H2Okinetic showerhead technology; [*]Adidas' Boost shoe technology to observe the flow of foam particles in microgravity; [*]Boston University's Flow Chemistry Platform for Synthetic Reactions on ISS, which will study the effects of microgravity on chemical reactions, as a first step toward on-demand chemical synthesis on the space station; [*]Emory University School of Medicine's MVP Cell-03 experiment to study the generation of specialized heart muscle cells for use in research and clinical applications.[/list] The Dragon spacecraft that will support the CRS-20 mission previously supported the CRS-10 mission in February 2017 and the CRS-16 mission in December 2018. This mission will mark the final flight of a first generation Dragon cargo spacecraft. Beginning with CRS-21, SpaceX will switch to using Crew Dragon spacecraft configured to fly cargo. The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission previously flew on the CRS-19 mission in December 2019. Following stage separation, SpaceX will attempt to recover the Falcon 9's first stage on Landing Zone-1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. The CRS-20 Dragon will return to Earth with more than 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) of cargo after spending about four weeks at the space station.
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