At 10:27 a.m. EDT on October 15, 2026, SpaceX’s Dragon docked to the space-facing port of the ISS Harmony module on NASA’s CRS-35 mission blog, delivering more than 6,300 pounds of food, supplies, and equipment.
Power and biomed in the trunk
Cargo includes the final set of International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays (IROSAs) for installation later this fall — the station’s long power upgrade arc continuing. Science hardware riding along: artificial-retina work aimed at vision restoration research, brain organoids for neurodegenerative targets, and 3D heart-tissue models for drug-testing approaches on future missions.
Cargo flights rarely trend like crewed launches, but this one is infrastructure: watts for the labs, plus microgravity biology that only makes sense on station. IROSAs are the unsexy systems win that keeps the rest of the science powered.
Why I logged it
If you follow commercial LEO logistics, CRS-35 is another on-time Dragon docking with a mixed manifest — consumables, exterior power gear, and health research. Watch the IROSA install EVAs later this fall more than the docking GIF. Power budgets are destiny on orbit.
CRS flights are how the station stays fed and powered while bigger Moon talk dominates headlines. Final IROSAs are a systems milestone. The biomed payloads are the long-game reason the watts matter.
NASA’s blog is the primary for docking time and manifest color. Secondary launch blogs will remix it; if numbers disagree, trust the station blog and the mission pages linked from it.
Have a blessed day!