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accreditation now is open for the April dispatch of a load resupply benefit
mission to the International Space Station. SpaceX's Dragon payload rocket is
focused for dispatch at 4:43 p.m. EDT Friday, April 8. The Dragon container
will dispatch on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape
Canaveral Air Force Station (CCAFS) in Florida, conveying science research,
group supplies and equipment to the circling lab in backing of the Expedition
47 and 48 teams. The flight additionally incorporates the Bigelow Aerospace
expandable territory module that will be appended to the space station for
testing. In its planned come back to Earth in May, the Dragon container will
bring back natural specimens from space explorers, including those gathered
amid NASA's one-year mission. This dispatch is the eighth contracted mission by
SpaceX under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract.Media prelaunch and
dispatch exercises will happen at CCAFS and at close-by NASA Kennedy Space
Center. The due date to apply for media access to Kennedy is 5 p.m., March 24
for non-nationals and 5 p.m. Walk 31 for U.S. subjects. The enrollment due date
for universal media access to the Air Force station has gone for this occasion./nasa.gov
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