The flight is carrying 6,000 pounds of cargo including refined radishes and a 3D camera, that’s going to go on the outside of the space station to take images when the crew is doing a spacewalk.
“Well, we’ve got a little bit of everything on this flight we’ve got 6000 pounds of cargo going up, we have the. We have several things enabling future exploration missions, beyond the space station, so our missions to the moon and to Mars. Not only do we have the toilet, that you’ve heard about but we have another one in our series of fire safety experiments called Sapphire, we have a component of our new spacesuit that we’ll be testing in microgravity on the space station,” Robyn Gatens said.
“We have an advanced particulate monitor to measure airborne particulates and several things than that. That’s going to help us enable future exploration missions. We also have science experiments. So we have, we have cancer research going on on this on this flight rehab. We have refined radishes. In our advanced plant habitats. And then we have outreach,” Gatens added.
A cargo spacecraft has been launched from the Northrop Grahman of the International Space Station of the National Aeronautical and Space Administration (NASA). And the spacecraft has been named by NASA after former Indian-origin astronaut Kalpana Chawla.
Kalpana Chawla was the first Indian-origin woman to reach space and was one of the seven crew members killed in the space shuttle in the Columbia disaster when a spacecraft crash occurred while re-entering the Earth’s atmosphere in 2003 .