Fans of slow TV can enjoy watching SpaceX’s Cargo Dragon spacecraft depart from the International Space Station on Thursday at the start of its journey home.
A SpaceX Cargo Dragon spacecraft will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday, August 18, and NASA will livestream the entire process.
The Dragon will carry back to Earth more than 4,000 pounds of supplies and scientific experiments that ISS astronauts worked on in microgravity conditions. At the end of its journey, the spacecraft will land in the ocean close to Florida.
“Splashing down off the coast of Florida enables quick transportation of the experiments to NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, allowing researchers to collect data with minimal sample exposure to Earth’s gravity,” NASA said.
When it arrived at the orbital outpost on July 16 as part of SpaceX’s 25th commercial resupply mission, the Cargo Dragon brought with it more than 5,800 pounds of research investigations, crew supplies, and station hardware.
