posted 04-15-2025 04:12 PM               

SpaceX CRS-32 Mission Overview

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the CRS-32 Dragon spacecraft to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station for NASA.

The 12th flight under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services-2 contract with SpaceX, the CRS-32 Dragon will carry research, logistics and hardware for the Expedition 73 crew including:

• Smartphone Video Guidance Sensor-2 (SVGS-2) — to demonstrate using a vision-based sensor developed by NASA to control a formation flight of small satellites.

• DNA Nano Therapeutics-Mission 2 — to produce a special type of molecule formed by DNA-inspired, customizable building blocks known as Janus base nanomaterials.

• Atomic Clock Ensemble in Space (ACES) — to examine fundamental physics concepts such as Einstein's theory of relativity using two next-generation atomic clocks operated in microgravity.

• Aerosol Monitors — to test three different air quality monitors in space to determine which is best suited to protect crew health and ensure mission success.

• Industrial Crystallization Cassette (ADSEP-ICC) to add capabilities to an existing protein crystallization facility, including the ability to process tiny gold particles like the type used in devices that detect cancer and other diseases or in targeted drug delivery systems.

• Rhodium USAFA NIGHT - to examine how tomato plants respond to microgravity and whether a carbon dioxide replacement can reduce how much space-grown plants depend on photosynthesis.

The CRS-32 Dragon (C208) previously flew on the CRS-22, CRS-24, CRS-27 and CRS-30 flights. It will return to Earth with research and cargo after spending about four weeks at the space station.

posted 04-21-2025 03:35 AM               

CRS-32 Cargo Dragon lifts off for space station

SpaceX launched its 32nd cargo mission to the International Space Station early Monday morning (April 21), carrying more than 3 tons of supplies and scientific hardware to the orbiting laboratory for NASA.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the uncrewed Cargo Dragon spacecraft lifted off Monday at 4:15 a.m. EDT (0815 GMT) from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

If all goes according to plan, the capsule will arrive at the space station on Tuesday (April 22) around 8:20 a.m. EDT (1230 GMT).

posted 04-22-2025 10:18 AM               

Dragon docks to space station

SpaceX's CRS-32 Dragon spacecraft docked to the space-facing port of the International Space Station's Harmony module on Tuesday (April 22) at 8:40 a.m. EDT, EST (1240 GMT).