NASA SpaceX Cargo Launches from Cape Canaveral
Cape Canaveral, FL — October 13, 2026 — NASA’s SpaceX 35th commercial resupply mission lifted off at 6:33 a.m. EDT aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, carrying more than 6,300 pounds of supplies and hardware to the International Space Station.
What Flew
Dragon is delivering new scientific experiments, cargo, and the final pair of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays. Astronauts will install the arrays during spacewalks planned for later this fall, completing the station’s power system upgrade for research and future deorbit operations.
- Hardware to manufacture artificial retinas in microgravity that could help restore vision on Earth
- 3D heart tissue models to advance large-scale drug testing for future space missions
- Materials to study how a new type of glass forms in microgravity
- Brain organoids that may uncover treatment targets for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and multiple sclerosis
Dragon was scheduled to autonomously dock to the space-facing port of the Harmony module. The spacecraft is expected to remain at the station until mid-November before returning science and cargo to Earth with a Pacific splashdown.
Source: NASA Release 26-087 — Florida Space Tourism Network coverage of Space Coast launches.
