SpaceX CRS-19, also known as SpX-19, was a Commercial Resupply Service mission to the

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. The mission is contracted by

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and was flown by

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on a

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rocket. Dragon capsule C106 made its third flight on CRS-19 having previously flown on CRS-4 and CRS-11. Dragon successfully returned to Earth on 7 January 2020 after a month-long stay at the ISS.

Launch schedule history

In February 2016, it was announced that NASA had awarded a contract extension to SpaceX for five CRS additional missions ( CRS-16 to CRS-20). In June 2016, a NASA Inspector General report had this mission manifested for December 2018. The mission was later delayed to 15 October 2019, but launched in December 2019. On 5 December 2019, CRS-19 launched successfully, followed by a successful first stage landing on the barge ''Of Course I Still Love You''.

Payload

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for the Dragon

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. CRS-11 carried a total of of material into orbit. This included of pressurised cargo with packaging bound for the International Space Station, and of unpressurised cargo composed of the Kibō-mounted Hyperspectral Imager Suite (HISUI) from Japan, the Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS) platform, and a replacement lithium-ion battery for the station's solar array truss. The following is a breakdown of cargo bound for the ISS: * Science investigations: * Crew supplies: * Vehicle hardware: * Spacewalk equipment: * Computer resources: * External payloads: ** Hyperspectral Imaging Suite (HISUI): ~ ** Robotic Tool Stowage (RiTS) ** Lithium-ion battery Among the science experiments transported to the station are the

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-sponsored Germination of ABI Voyager Barley Seeds in Microgravity, the Confined Combustion experiment, and 40 genetically engineered mice as part of the Rodent Research-19 experiment. A number of

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s were launched on CRS-19. The

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-25B flight included AzTechSat-1, SORTIE, and CryoCube, while the ELaNa-28 flight included CIRiS and EdgeCube. Other

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s launched on this mission include QARMAN and MakerSat-1.

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Launch schedule history

Payload

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