Los Angeles, April 22 -- NASA and SpaceX launched a new commercial resupply services mission to the International Space Station (ISS)on Monday.
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft lifted off at 4:15 a.m. Eastern Time from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in the southeastern U.S. state of Florida.
It is scheduled to autonomously dock with the ISS on Tuesday at about 8:20 a.m. Eastern Time.
This mission will deliver a wide range of scientific research and technology demonstrations to the orbiting laboratory. Aboard the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft are experiments focused on vision-based navigation, spacecraft air quality, materials for drug and product manufacturing, and advancing plant growth with less reliance on photosynthesis, according to NASA.
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