Cargo Dragon docks with ISS
The unmanned cargo Dragon that SpaceX launched on August 24, 2025 successfully docked with ISS earlier today.
At 7:05 a.m. EDT, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module. The spacecraft carried over 5,000 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory on SpaceX’s 33rd commercial resupply services mission for NASA.
It will remained docked for the next several months.
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The unmanned cargo Dragon that SpaceX launched on August 24, 2025 successfully docked with ISS earlier today.
At 7:05 a.m. EDT, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft docked to the forward port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module. The spacecraft carried over 5,000 pounds of scientific investigations and cargo to the orbiting laboratory on SpaceX’s 33rd commercial resupply services mission for NASA.
It will remained docked for the next several months.
On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.
The print edition can be purchased at Amazon or from any other book seller. If you want an autographed copy the price is $60 for the hardback and $45 for the paperback, plus $8 shipping for each. Go here for purchasing details. The ebook is available everywhere for $5.99 (before discount) at amazon, or direct from my ebook publisher, ebookit. If you buy it from ebookit you don't support the big tech companies and the author gets a bigger cut much sooner.
The audiobook is also available at all these vendors, and is also free with a 30-day trial membership to Audible.
"Not simply about one mission, [Genesis] is also the history of America's quest for the moon... Zimmerman has done a masterful job of tying disparate events together into a solid account of one of America's greatest human triumphs."--San Antonio Express-News
Actually, this Cargo Dragon will be coming back around the end of September. Cargo Dragons typical stay at ISS only long enough for the ISS crew to unload them and stash what was brought up, then reload them with whatever downmass needs to return to Earth. The typically month-long stays are about what it takes to do all of the manual stevedoring and warehousing needed at a pace that doesn’t overstress the crews who have to do it. It’s only the Crew Dragons that stick around for months because they have to act as lifeboats should anything occur requiring a quit exit of ISS by all aboard.
”Actually, this Cargo Dragon will be coming back around the end of September.
Actually, this Cargo Dragon will be coming back around the end of December. In addition to its normal cargo duties this Dragon will be performing several orbital reboosts, and those are done over time as the effects of drag build up to lower ISS’s orbit.
In addition to returning reusable supplies and experimental results back to Earth, cargo Dragons can pack hundreds of kilos of trash into the “trunk” section of the spacecraft, where it will be incinerated during reentry, along with the trunk itself.
mkent,
Thank you for the new orthopedic shoes – I stand corrected. :)
Ray Van Dune,
Cargo Dragons have brought back trash, but inside the pressurized volume, not in the trunk – or at least I can find no evidence this has ever been done.
It would be tricky to do given that there is no way to place anything in the trunk from inside the vehicle. Doing so from outside would require air-locking out the trash and then using one of the ISS’s robot arms to stash it in the trunk. I’m not sure it’s even possible to do the last of these things.
But if you want to buy me a second set of orthopedic shoes, feel free to find a source and provide a link.