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:

posted 09-05-2025 09:53 AM               

On Wednesday (Sept. 3), SpaceX's CRS-33 Dragon completed an initial burn to test the spacecraft's new capability to help maintain the altitude of the International Space Station.

posted 09-27-2025 08:14 AM               

You can view the pitch, roll, and yaw angles at ISS Mimic.

All three roughly close to zero is the usual LVLH orientation with USOS pointing forward; if yaw is close to 180 but the others are close to zero, that's the tail-forwards orientation for Dragon boosts (and often, Progress dockings to Zvezda).

Another option is to look at the ISS feed on YouTube and watch which direction the Earth is moving underneath the station. And yes, they do reorient for each boost, although they'll often do the maneuver several hours before or after the burn (or docking).