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SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft is on Way Home - Live Updates

The historical Dragon mission is nearing its end. The private spacecraft has just left the ISS. It will land in the Pacific Ocean at 11:44am ET.

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SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft is on Way Home
 
 

After making the historic journey as the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth today. Dragon has just undocked from the...

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SpaceX Dragon Mission Interview and Q&A with Elon Musk

 
Jun 1 2012, 8:26am CDT
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First Photo of Dragon Spacecraft floating in Pacific Ocean - looking fine!

 
May 31 2012, 2:10pm CDT
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Dragon splashed down!

This morning, at approximately 8:42 AM Pacific/11:42 AM Eastern, Space Exploration Technologies (SpaceX) completed its historic mission when the Dragon spacecraft splashed down safely in the Pacific. The vehicle will now be recovered by boats and start the trip back to land. 

 
May 31 2012, 1:57pm CDT
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Dragon out of Orbit, will splash down in 40 minutes

 
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Next version of Dragon will land with Helicopter Precision says Elon Musk

 
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Dragon to deorbit in 30 minutes Tweets Elon Musk

 
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SpaceX Dragon Spacecraft is on Way Home - Live Updates

After making the historic journey as the first commercial spacecraft to visit the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft will return to Earth today. Dragon has just undocked from the International Space Station. Watch live on NASA TV.

Dragon is the only spacecraft capable of returning a significant amount of cargo from the space station. The other cargo vehicles serving the space station - from Russia, Japan and the European Space Agency - can carry cargo up but all are destroyed after leaving the station.

While Dragon was attached to the space station, astronauts unloaded 1,146 pounds of cargo including food, other crew provisions and student experiments. They then packed the spacecraft with 1,455 pounds of cargo that will be returned to NASA on Earth including hardware used for experiments, spacewalks and station systems.

Dragon is targeted to land in the Pacific Ocean, a few hundred miles west of Southern California, at approximately 8:44 AM Pacific/11:44 AM Eastern on Thursday, May 31st. The spacecraft returns to Earth like a burning comet, protected from extreme reentry temperatures by its powerful PICA-X heat shield. The landing location is controlled by firing the Draco thrusters during reentry.

 

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Luigi Lugmayr (Google) is the founding chief Editor of I4U News and brings over 15 years experience in the technology field to the ever evolving and exciting world of gadgets. He started I4U News back in 2000 and evolved it into vibrant technology magazine.
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