New NASA Cargo Launches to Space Station Aboard SpaceX-3 Mission

Approximately 2.4 tons of NASA science investigations and cargo were launched to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft. The launch aboard the company's Falcon 9 rocket took place from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Monday, April 18 at 3:25 p.m. EDT. Dragon's cargo will support more than 150 experiments that will be conducted during space station Expeditions 39 and 40. The spacecraft will be grappled at 7:11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 16 by Expedition 39 Commander Koichi Wakata of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency. Dragon is scheduled to depart the space station May 18 for a splashdown in the Pacific Ocean west of Baja California, bringing with it about 3,500 pounds of science and research, hardware, crew supplies and spacewalk tools from the space station.

[whiterottenrabbit]

0:53: Thank goodness the commentator resumed the countdown! Otherwise I never would have guessed how many seconds remain until liftoff.

[Echo-epft]

@NASA, I hope you upload the video of the re-entry/deporting of the Dragon spacecraft when it'll splash in the Pacific ! :D

[christinatetzlaff]

My high school students are among many competing on a protein crystallization project that was just launched into space.  We have been researching and working on this project since last spring and it is quite exciting to finally see our proteins rise to ISS! Congrats to NASA/Space X and to all the students involved in this! 

[rangertech]

Really liked the infrared video of the second stage nozzle. Seemed from the footage that the heat distribution was even per cm2. Looking forward to the telemetry of stage one re-entry burn. Congratulations SpaceX and NASA. Glad you got off the pad today. New suit and all the other cargo will be appreciated on the ISS.

[blackops]

this is why I love space X they strap cameras to their rockets lol nasa take notes and if you have cameras as well release the footage too it's cool to see the liftoff it's kinda boring to have a little dot on the air from a ground camera

[onjofilms]

Love every second of it.  Hope they get 1080p cameras or even better 4K cameras on those babies one day.

[RealiMente]

Nice to see everything went well, and nice to see better quality of video of the mission, thanks.

[CrewNoob]

Fun Fact: This flight had the first Falcon 9 booster with Landing legs, was used for a Water Landing test, the same test was repeated on Orgcomm-1 Flight

[Ocodo]

Congratulation Nasa and Spacex! Gratulacje!

[marklikesit]

Elon, bring your cars and rockets to Australia.

[troyadams]

That was an awesome launch, don't usually get so many camera angles.

[Mitchz]

They should put some small boosters on the second stage that slow it back into the atmosphere once the Dragon is safely away.

[MrDaddynomates]

Please stop feeding the trolls. They go away if you ignore them. These videos are for people who love space exploration and science. Ignore the paranoid conspiracy idiots.

[fireboys]

hey i would want to know what is the debris you see when the rocket undocks and when its burning up wards i keep seeing tings fly bye

[jessjabben]

U see the stuff splash up on the rocket? What is that

[SoldierOfNorway]

The american space programme freakin SO COOL!

[drs]

do these mission all controlled by computers?

[danieldelong]

What time will the Space-Walk commence on Wednesday, April 23rd?  Will it be televised via YouTUBE / NASA?

[calabiyou]

Ha some people click dislike. "I dislike humans successfully going into space"

[Alephzorg]

"Monday, April 18"
Something to correct here.