Science and Exploration

This Week at NASA Recap for Friday, September 28, 2012

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
September 30, 2012
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This Week at NASA Recap for Friday, September 28, 2012
Space Falcon 9 with Dragon Spacecraft heads to the pad.
NASA

In This Week at NASA: October 7 is the launch date for SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on the first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station.
This will be the first of 12 contracted flights by SpaceX to resupply the space station under the Commercial Resupply Services contract and will restore an American capability to transport cargo to and from the orbiting laboratory. Also, Curiosity Finds Streambed; New ISS Crew; Endeavour in L.A.; Extreme Hubble; Webb’s Mirrors; Milky Way’s Halo; and more.

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