CRS-10 Mission in Photos (ongoing)

At 9:39:00 am ET on February 19, 2017, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, carrying the Dragon spacecraft, lifted off from Launch Complex 39A to deliver nearly 5,500 lbs of cargo and supplies to the International Space Station. This marked SpaceX’s first launch from Kennedy Space Center’s historic pad, and the first launch from LC-39A since July 8, 2011 when Atlantis lifted off for the final flight of the Shuttle Program.

Over the next two days, Dragon will conduct a series of height adjust and coelliptic burns to bring it closer to the International Space Station, culminating with capture of Dragon by the station’s robotic arm and berthing of the spacecraft to the Harmony module of the International Space Station. For about a month, crew members will unload the spacecraft and reload it with cargo to return to Earth.

Below is a summary of the mission in photos, with more hi res photos available on our Flickr site. You can also watch the archived webcast here, and find more information about the mission in our press kit.

Falcon 9, carrying the Dragon spacecraft, lifted off from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center at 9:39:00 am ET, carrying nearly 5,500 lbs of cargo and supplies for the International Space Station.

The second stage engine nozzle glows amber following the successful separation of the Falcon 9 first and second stages. In this view, the Falcon 9 first stage is barely visible as a small white line perpendicular to the center of the second stage engine nozzle.

Grid fins are deployed to help orient the first stage during reentry; the second stage continues to carry Dragon to its intended orbit.

View from onboard camera of landing legs deployed just prior to touching down at Landing Zone 1.

Falcon 9 first stage after its first daytime landing at Landing Zone 1 in Cape Canaveral.

The Dragon spacecraft successfully separates from the second stage.

Dragon’s solar panels deploy and the spacecraft begins a series of height adjust and coelliptic burns to bring it closer to the International Space Station.

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