Two cargo spacecraft en route to space station

Two cargo spacecraft en route to space station

Two unpiloted cargo spacecraft are racing to catch up to and rendezvous with the International Space Station after flawless launches on opposite sides of the planet.

At 17:29 UTC Dec. 5, 2019, SpaceX launched its CRS-19 Dragon spacecraft atop a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. About 16 hours later, at 9:34 UTC Dec. 6, Russia launched its Progress MS-13 freighter atop a Soyuz 2.1a rocket from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

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