The American cargo spacecraft Dragon, built by a private company SpaceX, returned to Earth after a mission to the International Space Station (ISS), drive in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. “Splashdown ending at 12:38 local time (23:38 GMT),” – said in SpaceX. Next chartered by the court will deliver the unit to close the port of Los Angeles.
September 23 Dragon makes docking with the ISS, the crew station delivering 2.5 tons of cargo – in particular, food, equipment and materials for scientific experiments. Back to Earth, he brought about 1.5 tons of supplies, including the results of the experiments. Return of the Dragon – currently the world’s only reusable space “truck” – previously scheduled for October 21, but was postponed due to a storm in the Pacific Ocean.
This was the fourth flight Dragon spacecraft to ISS transmits TASS. According to the contract between NASA and SpaceX totaling $ 1.6 billion he has to fly there eight times. In addition to the ship Dragon NASA uses to deliver cargo to the station ship Cygnus, built by Orbital Sciences. Also to deliver cargo to the ISS applied Russian “Progress” and European spacecraft ATV.
At the moment working on the ISS crew of six Russian cosmonauts Maxim Suraev Alexander Samokutyayev and Elena Serova, NASA astronaut Reid Wiseman and Barry Wilmore, and their colleague from the European Space Agency – German Alexander Gerst.
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