Overview

• Lifting off at 2:45 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral, the CRS-33 mission sent Dragon C211 toward the Harmony forward port for a planned Monday docking at 7:30 a.m.
• The Falcon 9 first stage completed its seventh flight and landed on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic.
• Dragon is outfitted with an independent propellant system and two Draco engines in its trunk, giving about 1.5 times the reboost capability of a Progress vehicle and slated to handle most orbit-raising burns while docked.
• The first reboost burn is planned for Sept. 3, with additional maneuvers through the fall as Dragon remains attached until December in SpaceX’s first long-duration cargo mission.
• More than 5,000 pounds of cargo include hardware for around 50 investigations, such as 3D metal printing, bioprinted liver tissue studies, and bone-forming stem cell research.