UPDATED 5:14 AM ET Apr. 21, 2025 PUBLISHED 11:40 AM ET Apr. 18, 2025 PUBLISHED 11:40 AM EDT Apr. 18, 2025 SHARE KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — While many were in bed, except for a few diehard space fans who were awake to watch, NASA and SpaceX launched nearly 7,000 pounds of food, experiments and other goodies to the International Space Station early Monday morning. What You Need To Know SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent up NASA’s 32nd commercial resupply mission in the company’s Dragon capsule to the floating laboratory The Falcon 9 took off in an instantaneous launch from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center — NASA's Kennedy Space Center (@NASAKennedy) April 21, 2025 SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sent up NASA’s 32nd commercial resupply mission in the company’s Dragon capsule to the floating laboratory, stated SpaceX. The Falcon 9 took off in an instantaneous launch at 4:15 a.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, according to NASA. The launch needed to be instantaneous to catch up and then dock with the ISS’s Harmony module at 8:20 a.m. ET, Tuesday, April 22. “The Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to remain at the space station until May, when it will depart and return to Earth with research and cargo, splashing down off the coast of California,” NASA described. Third time’s a charm