On Monday, April 2 at 4:30 p.m. EDT , SpaceX falcon9 lifted off for its fourteenth Commercial Resupply Services mission (CRS-14) to the International Space Station. The Dragon spacecraft separated from the Falcon 9 rocket’s second stage about 10 minutes after liftoff and attached to the space station on Wednesday, April 4. This is SpaceX’s 14th cargo mission to the space station under NASA’s Commercial Resupply Services contract. Dragon is scheduled to depart the station in May and return to Earth with more than 3,500 pounds of research, hardware and crew supplies.