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SpaceX launches load of station supplies for NASA

CAPE CANAVERAL: SpaceX nailed its 50th rocket landing by successfully launching load of station supplies for NASA late Friday night  (6th of March, 2020). 

According to details Falcon rocket blasted off with 1,950 kilograms of equipment and experiments for the International Space Station. SpaceX engineer Jessica Anderson announced from Mission Control: “And the Falcon has landed for the 50th time in SpaceX history. What an amazing live view all the way to touchdown.” The Dragon capsule, meanwhile, hurtled toward a Monday rendezvous with the space station.

It is pertinent to mention here that it was the twentieth station delivery for SpaceX, which has launched 45,360 kilograms of goods to the orbiting outpost and returned back to Earth since it began shipments in 2012.  SpaceX founder and chief executive Elon Musk told it was the windiest conditions ever 40 km/h to 48 km/h for a booster landing at Cape Canaveral.

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M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career four decades ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.