posted 07-25-2025 12:57 PM               

Please use this topic to discuss SpaceX's 33rd Dragon cargo flight (CRS-33) to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contracts.

posted 08-14-2025 04:24 PM               

The date adjustment provides additional time for mission readiness as teams work to complete final prelaunch preparations.

posted 08-18-2025 07:00 PM               

Tuesday, Aug. 19
• 1 p.m. – International Space Station National Laboratory Science Webinar with the following participants:
  • Heidi Parris, associate program scientist, NASA's International Space Station Program Research Office
    
  • Michael Roberts, chief scientific officer, International Space Station National Laboratory
    
  • James Yoo, assistant director, Wake Forest Institute of Regenerative Medicine
    
  • Tony James, chief architect for science and space, Red Hat
    
  • Abba Zubair, medical director and scientist, Mayo Clinic
    
  • Arun Sharma, director, Center for Space Medicine Research, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center
  The conference will stream live on the International Space Station National Lab's website.
  
  Friday, Aug. 22

• 11:30 a.m. – Prelaunch media teleconference with the following participants:
  • Bill Spetch, operations integration manager, NASA's International Space Station Program
    
  • Heidi Parris, associate program scientist, NASA's International Space Station Program Research Office
    
  • Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX
  Audio of the media teleconference will stream live on the agency's YouTube channel.

  Sunday, Aug. 24

• 2:25 a.m. – Launch coverage begins on NASA+, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.

• 2:45 a.m. – Launch
  
  Monday, Aug. 25

• 6 a.m. – Arrival coverage begins on NASA+, Netflix, and Amazon Prime.
  
  
• 7:30 a.m. – Docking

posted 08-22-2025 03:11 PM               

For the record, the upcoming SpaceX CRS-33 resupply/reboost mission will attempt the 50th Dragon docking at the International Space Station but it's not the 50th launch of a Dragon to the ISS. One Dragon mission failed to reach the station due to a launch accident (CRS-7 in June 2015).

From Eric Berger with Ars Technica:

Also, the first 21 missions berthed rather than docked.

posted 08-23-2025 10:26 PM               

The 33rd SpaceX commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station is set to lift off at 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 UTC) on Sunday, Aug. 24, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, atop a Falcon 9 rocket.

posted 08-24-2025 06:50 AM               

Here was the view from OSB-II: