Docking is scheduled for 11:20 a.m. EDT (1520 GMT).
is ferrying more than 5,800 pounds of cargo to the ISS on CRS-25. About half of that weight is dedicated to scientific research. CRS-25 will contribute to nearly 40 ongoing research projects taking place on the orbital lab and drop off a handful more, NASA officials said.
One study, from the European Space Agency and the University of Florence in Italy, is investigating the effects ofon the healing process of sutured wounds. Another, from the University of California, San Francisco, will study the immune system’s relationship to aging and the body’s ability to heal itself. There’s also an investigation to study a special type of biopolymer concrete, which could aid the search for future construction materials on the moon.
Loaded in Dragon’s trunk, the EMIT experiment — short for the Earth Surface Mineral Dust Source Investigation — will be pulled from its stow using the ISS’s robotic arm and mounted to the ExPRESS Logistics Carrier 1, an exposed external payload bay used for experiments and storage. EMIT will spend the next year studying the mineral composition of dust in Earth’s arid regions to help scientists better understand the planet’s global climate system.
A SpaceX Dragon capsule separates from the upper stage of its Falcon 9 rocket after launching on the CRS-25 cargo mission to the International Space Station on July 14, 2022.
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