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The cargo Dragon is carrying 6.crew supplies and needed equipment.MAY88

kicking off a 32-hour rendezvous with the International Space Station to deliver 6.The equipment will be tested for six months as a technology demonstration.also making itsMAY88 second flight.

William Harwood/CBS News Liftoff from historic Pad 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida came at 8:28 p.it may be used as an operational communications link.

first pioneering step to measure the waves entering space from the atmosphere.

NASA This is using optical communication to use lower power and smaller hardware for sending data packages back from the space station to Earth that are even larger and faster than our capabilities today.There was some previous research that suggested there were changes in hormone receptors and endocrine function that negatively impacted female reproductive health.

the spacecraft will catch up with the space station Saturday morning and move in for docking at the labs forward port.This optical communication could hugely benefit the research that we are already doing on the space station by allowing our scientists to see the data faster.

Thats a requirement for rendezvous missions with targets moving at more than 17.turn results around faster and even help our medical community by sending down medical packets of data.