Falcon 9 launched SpaceX's CRS-8 Dragon resupply mission to the ISS carrying the Bigelow Expandable Activity Module (BEAM) test habitat. The first stage achieved the first successful landing on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You.
- Outcome
- Success
- Orbit
- LEO
- Low Earth orbit
- Payload to orbit
- 12.7 T (est.)
- Flight
- 3rd
- of 24 Falcon 9 Full Thrust flights
- Date and time
- 8 April 2016, 20:43 UTC
- Rocket
- Falcon 9 Full Thrust
- Builder
- SpaceX
- Launch site
- Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA
- Payload
- Resupply
- International designator
- 2016-024
- Launches in 2016
- 24th of 85
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