The SpaceX Dragon CRS-15 cargo spacecraft was captured with the International Space Station’s robotic Canadarm2 by NASA astronaut Ricky Arnold, on 2 July2018, at 10:54 UTC (06:54 EDT). The CRS-15 Dragon spacecraft was launched by SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, on 29 June 2018, at 09:42 UTC (05:42 EDT). Dragon previously supported the CRS-9 mission in July 2016 and is now carrying more than 5,900 pounds of research investigations and equipment, cargo and supplies. Among those, a cellular biology investigation (Micro-12) to understand how microgravity affects the growth, an Earth science instrument called the ECOsystem Spaceborne Thermal Radiometer Experiment on Space Station (ECOSTRESS), the Crew Interactive MObile companioN (CIMON) - crew support from an artificial intelligence (AI) in terms of efficiency and acceptance during long-term missions in space.
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