A SpaceX cargo ship laden with 5,000 pounds (2,270 kilograms) of supplies will launch to the International Space Station early Sunday morning (Aug. 24), and you can watch the action live.

A robotic Dragon capsule is scheduled to lift off atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday at 2:45 a.m. EDT (0645 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in coastal Florida. The launch will kick off SpaceX's 33rd mission for NASA's Commercial Resupply Services program, hence the flight's name: CRS-33.

Coverage will start roughly 20 minutes before launch. You can watch it here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or via the space agency.

If the launch goes to plan, the CRS-33 Dragon will dock with the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday (Aug. 25) at the forward port of

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