SpaceX Falcon 9 Launch Thread - CRS-20

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FAREWELL DRAGON 1, FAREWELL CRS CONTRACT, ALSO WINDY edition

WHEN: Friday, March 6 11:50 PM EST / 4:50 UTC
STREAM: https://www.spacex.com/webcast [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MkcWK2PnsU]
NASA STREAM: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21X5lGlDOfg
Probability of weather delay: 40% [https://www.patrick.af.mil/Portals/14/Weather/L-1%20Forecast%206%20March%20Launch.pdf?ver=2020-03-05-112837-310]
Backup launch date: Saturday, March 7 11:27 PM EST / 4:27 UTC

Launch site: SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida (East Coast)
Booster number & previous flights: B1059.2 [CRS-19]
First stage landing: Yes, on landing pad LZ-1
SpaceX press kit: https://www.spacex.com/sites/spacex/files/crs-20_mission_press_kit_1.pdf
Dragon number & previous flights: C112.3 [CRS-10, CRS-16]
Payload: Science and research equipment, other supplies
Payload mass & destination orbit: 1977 kg (total cargo); International Space Station (400 km @ 52°)

Payload information:
>https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/atoms/files/spacex_crs-20_mission_overview.pdf
>https://www.issnationallab.org/launches/spacex-crs-20/

Stats:
This will be the 50th landed first stage, 33rd booster reflight, and 82nd Falcon 9 launch. It is the 5th SpaceX launch of 2020.

>CRS-20 is the twentieth and final mission to the International Space Station that SpaceX will fly for NASA under the first Commercial Resupply Services (CRS) contract.
This is the LAST flight of Dragon 1!