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[b]SpaceX CRS-11 Mission Overview[/b] A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the CRS-11 Dragon spacecraft to low-Earth orbit to deliver cargo to and from the International Space Station for NASA. The 11th flight under NASA's Commercial Resupply Services contract with SpaceX, CRS-11 will deliver supplies for the station's Expedition 52/53 crews, as well as several science investigations, including: [list][*]Seedling Growth-3, a joint project of NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA), to study the basic mechanisms of light and gravity-sensing in plants; [*]Advanced Colloids Experiment-Temperature-6 (ACE-T-6), to study the microscopic behavior of colloids in gels and creams, providing new insight into fundamental interactions that can improve product shelf life; [*]Advanced Combustion via Microgravity Experiments (ACME), a set of five independent studies of gaseous flames to improve fuel efficiency and reduce pollutants in practical combustion on Earth; [*]Fruit Fly Lab-02 (FFL-02), to compare flies that have hatched in space with flies grown on the ground to understand how prolonged spaceflight affects fruit fly heart function.[/list] The Dragon's unpressurized trunk will also transport a Roll Out Solar Array (ROSA) demonstrator; the Multi-User System for Earth Sensing (MUSES) to provide a precision-pointing platform for observations of Earth; and the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) to study the collapsed cores of large stars. CRS-11 is the 100th mission to launch from Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center. Following stage separation, the first stage of the Falcon 9 will attempt to land at SpaceX's Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida. CRS-11 marks the first re-flight of a SpaceX spacecraft. The Dragon previously resupplied the space station on SpaceX's CRS-4 mission in September 2014.
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