• SpaceX successfully launched a Dragon spacecraft on a cargo mission for NASA to International Space Station (ISS).

BACKGROUND:

• It carries 2,500 kilograms of research, supplies and hardware for astronauts living and working on ISS as part of the CRS-17 mission (17th resupply mission)
• This is SpaceX’s fifth launch of the year.
• The launch was rescheduled earlier due to some electrical problem on ISS.
• It was launched on a ‘Falcon 9’ rocket, from Cape Canaveral in Florida. It is being used for the first time.