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Elon Musk’s SpaceX to the stars on Sunday, blasting off to the International Space Station with a 4,800-pound payload.

The shipment, carried on a capsule called the , includes avocados, ice cream, ants, and a robotic arm. This is SpaceX’s 23rd supply launch for NASA, .

It’s part of a shipment of food for the , a whose experiments include learning how to grow food in space.

Aboard the ISS are , , and from the US; and from Russia; from Japan; and from France.

Vande Hei, Novitskiy, and Dubrov have been in space , while McArthur, Kimbrough, Pesquet, and Hoshide have been there .

Many of the materials SpaceX is transporting are for research. The Girl Scouts sent for use in experiments at the space station.

One of the experiments is designed to look at how tomatoes and other plants grow in a weightless environment, while the astronauts will use the ants to study the tunneling behavior of insects in space. They’ll study the brine shrimp to see whether a colony of crustaceans could eventually be grown in space to provide fresh protein for astronauts.

The astronauts are set to use the robotic arm, from the Japanese startup Gitai, for repairs and menial tasks, . Gitai’s chief technology officer, Toyotaka Kozuki, told the newspaper that future models might be able to move into space independently to repair satellites, build lunar bases, and mine resources from the moon’s surface.

The launch was but was delayed because of stormy weather near the launch site. It from a launch complex at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

The Dragon capsule is set to dock at the space station on Monday.