Musk aims to make rockets as reusable as commercial aeroplanes bringing down the cost of spaceflight and boosting efficiency
The blastoff from South Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station is scheduled for 4:30 p.m. ET.
Conditions will remain the same in the event of a 24-hour delay.
Dragon also carries cargo for research in the National Laboratory, operated by the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space (CASIS), including testing the effects of the harsh space environment on materials, coatings and components; identifying potential pathogens aboard the station; and investigating an antibiotic-releasing wound patch.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the Dragon cargo spacecraft toward the International Space Station today (April 2) from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, hauling almost 3 tons of experiments and supplies, including a lightning tracker, a materials-science facility, two student genetics experiments and much more.
Dragon will separate from Falcon 9's second stage about 10 minutes after liftoff and attach to the space station on April 4.
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It's also one of the nine import films which earned above 200 million yuan this year in the world's second-largest movie market. Directed by Kabir Khan , Bajrangi Bhaijaan also starred Kareena Kapoor Khan and Harshali Malhotra in the lead roles.
Monday Afternoon: Clouds, sun and warm with changes looming
Tonight: There will be some clear spells overnight, although further showery outbreaks of rain are also likely. Late Tuesday night, a fast-moving cold front will produce a squall line into the predawn hours of Wednesday .
The many odd varieties of upper-atmospheric phenomena caused by thunderstorms, which the Atmosphere-Space Interactions Monitor will survey from the International Space Station.
Something called Materials International Space Station Experiment (MISSE) will mount on the exterior of the space station to allow for experiments to be directly exposed to the harshness of space.
That will be followed by the company's third April launch on the 24th, when the company will send a communications satellite into space.
Falcon 9's first stage previously supported the CRS-12 mission in August 2017. Included among the science-related cargo is an experiment created to study severe thunderstorms on Earth.
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