SpaceX Launches Ants, Avocados, Robot to Space Station

SpaceX Launches Ants, Avocados, Robot to Space Station
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the uncrewed Dragon spacecraft, soars upward after lifting off from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida at 3:14 a.m., on Aug. 29, 2021. Kim Shiflett/NASA
The Associated Press
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.—A SpaceX shipment of ants, avocados, and a human-sized robotic arm rocketed toward the International Space Station on Sunday.

The delivery—due to arrive Monday—is the company’s 23rd for NASA in just under a decade.