A @SpaceX cargo mission to resupply the space station counts down to launch today weather pending. Meanwhile, the Exp 74 crew studied physics, botany, and robotics on Tuesday. More...
Our next cargo mission to the @Space_Station is lifting off from Florida as soon as Tuesday, May 12.
Flying aboard: medical research to understand our blood and bones, a new space weather experiment, and supplies and hardware for the crew. Read more:
Starship’s cargo bay delivers 1,000+ cubic meters of usable volume
The entire International Space Station has a pressurized volume of 1,005 m³
It took 42 assembly flights and over $150 billion across 13+ years to build
Starship can deliver more volume than the entire ISS in a single flight
For context, a single payload bay can hold:
→ The interior volume of a massive 5-bedroom house
→ The volume of 20+ standard shipping containers
→ Entire space station modules (fully assembled)
→ Over two dozen Cybertrucks
→ Multiple Boeing 737 fuselage sections
→ 100+ large satellites with room to spare
And it is 18 meters tall....meaning you can stack an entire 5-story building inside it
And it is fully reusable.
Launch the next massive telescope. Or an entire space station. Or the next Mars habitat
All possible in a single flight
This is why Starship is pure engineering magic
China successfully launched a Tianzhou-10 cargo spacecraft atop a Long March-7 Y11 carrier rocket from the Wenchang Spacecraft Launch Site in south China's island province of Hainan on Monday.
LIVE: Experts talk about the next cargo launch to the @Space_Station. This delivery will include supplies and science experiments, including one that will evaluate how red blood cells and the spleen change in space to protect future astronauts.
A @SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with a Dragon cargo spacecraft atop counts down to launch at 6:50 p.m. EDT today live on @NASA+. Dragon will deliver new science and supplies to Exp 74 at 7:35 a.m. on Thursday.
The Exp 74 crew prepped for the @SpaceX Dragon cargo mission due to a launch at 6:50 p.m. EDT today. The crew also tested a voice-activated camera robot and conducted health checks on Wednesday. More...