NASA TV Set to Air US Cargo Ship Departure from Space Station
NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the craft's release beginning at 11:45 a.m. EDT.
- NASA Television and the agency's website will provide live coverage of the craft's release beginning at 11:45 a.m. EDT.
- Dragon launched on the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket May 4 from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, and arrived at the station two days later.
- On May 23, astronauts aboard the space station successfully edited DNA using CRISPR/Cas9 technology for the first time in space, working on the Genes in Space 6 investigation.
- This milestone advances understanding of how DNA repair mechanisms function in space and supports better safeguards to protect space explorers from DNA damage.