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Media Briefing with Elon Musk as the SpaceX Dragon is Headed to the ISS

By Marc Boucher
Status Report
April 9, 2016
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Media Briefing with Elon Musk as the SpaceX Dragon is Headed to the ISS
Media Briefing with Elon Musk as the SpaceX Dragon is Headed to the ISS.
NASA

Following the April 8 launch of a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft on a resupply mission to the International Space Station. Representatives of NASA and SpaceX talked about the status of the mission.
Dragon will deliver approximately 3.5 tons of supplies and experiments to the Expedition 47 crew, including the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module, or BEAM, which will be attached to the rear port of the Tranquility module. It is scheduled to spend two years at the complex, testing the validity of expandable habitats for future deep space exploration.

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