After delivering about 6,000 pounds of cargo, a SpaceX
Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to leave the International Space Station on
Sunday, July 2. NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live
coverage of Dragon's departure beginning at 11:15 a.m. EDT.
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After delivering about 6,000 pounds of cargo, a SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft is set to
leave the International Space Station
on Sunday, July 2. NASA Television and the agency’s website will provide live coverage of
Dragon's departure beginning at 11:15 a.m. EDT.
Flight controllers will use the Canadarm2 robotic arm to detach
the Dragon capsule, which arrived at the station June 5, from the Earth-facing
side of the station's Harmony module. After they maneuver Dragon into place,
Expedition 52 Flight Engineers Jack Fischer and Peggy Whitson of NASA will
command release of the spacecraft at 11:38 a.m.
Dragon’s thrusters will be fired to move the spacecraft a safe
distance from the station before SpaceX flight controllers in Hawthorne,
California, command its deorbit burn. The capsule will splash down about 5:16
p.m. in the Pacific Ocean. Deorbit burn and splashdown will not air on NASA TV.
Recovery forces will retrieve the capsule and its more than 4,100
pounds of returning cargo, including science samples from human and animal
research, biotechnology studies, physical science investigations and education
activities. NASA and the Center for the Advancement of Science in Space, the
nonprofit organization that manages research aboard the U.S. national
laboratory portion of the space station, will receive and process research
samples, ensuring they are distributed to the appropriate facilities within 48
hours of splashdown.
In the event of adverse weather conditions in the Pacific, the
backup departure date is Monday, July 3, with NASA TV coverage beginning at 2
a.m. and spacecraft release at 2:28 a.m.
Dragon, the only space station resupply spacecraft able to return
to Earth intact, launched June
3 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy
Space Center in Florida, for the company’s 11th NASA-contracted commercial
resupply mission to the station.
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