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February 11, 2015

Dragon Leaves ISS

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NASA dixit:

“After spending a month at the International Space Station, the U.S. unpiloted SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft was unberthed from the Earth-facing port of the Harmony module and released from the station’s Canadarm2 robotic arm Feb. 10 by Expedition 42 Flight Engineers Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and Terry Virts of NASA, headed for a deorbit and parachute-assisted splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. Loaded with almost two tons of vital scientific experiments and station hardware, Dragon was aiming for a splashdown about 259 statute miles southwest of Long Beach, California, to complete the fifth commercial resupply mission to the station for SpaceX under its contract with NASA. Dragon was launched to the station atop the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Florida, Jan. 10 and arrived at the station Jan. 12.”

Credit: NASA / SpaceX

 

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