Launch Mission: CRS-8

Date: 4/8/2016

✅ Successful Launch

🧾 Mission Details

Flight #: 28

Details: Dragon carried over 1500 kg of supplies and delivered (stowed in its trunk) the inflatable Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) to the ISS for two years of in-orbit tests. The rocket's first stage landed smoothly on SpaceX's autonomous spaceport drone ship 9 minutes after liftoff, making this the first ever successful landing of a rocket booster on a ship at sea as part of an orbital launch. The first stage B1021 was later also the first orbital booster to be used again, when launching SES-10 on March 30, 2017.

🚀 Rocket Details

Name: Falcon 9

Type: rocket

📍 Launchpad Details

Name: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Space Launch Complex 40

Location: Cape Canaveral, Florida

Launchpad Details Page

🛰️ Cores

Core Serial: B1021 — Reuse Count: 1View Core

🧑‍🚀 Payloads

Payload: CRS-8 — Mass: 3136 kgView Payload

🚢 Ships Involved

Name: Elsbeth III — Type: TugView Ship
Name: GO Quest — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: Megan — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: NRC Quest — Type: CargoView Ship
Name: Of Course I Still Love You — Type: BargeView Ship