SpaceX launched their 21st contracted Cargo resupply flight to the International Space Station (ISS), marking the first flight of Cargo Dragon 2, the company’s new and upgraded un-crewed cargo spacecraft.
The Commercial Resupply Services-21 (CRS-21) mission lifted off from Launch Complex-39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center on 6 December 2020 at 16:17:08 UTC (11:17:08 EST) to start an approximately 30 day mission to the ISS to resupply the seven member Expedition 64 crew.
The automated docking occurred at 13:40 EST (18:40 UTC) to Node-2/Harmony’s space-facing zenith docking port.