The SpaceX Dragon SpX-9 spacecraft departed the International Space Station on Friday and parachuted to a safe splashdown in the Pacific Ocean after dropping over two metric tons of cargo off at ISS and picking up over one ton of return items, eagerly awaited by scientists and engineers.
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The Dragon SpX-9 spacecraft is set to make its return to Earth on Friday after a mission of over one month facilitating the delivery of critical items to the International Space Station.
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The crew aboard the International Space Station successfully tamed a Dragon on Wednesday when the SpaceX cargo spacecraft was captured by the Station’s robotic arm under control of Expedition 48 commander Jeff Williams.
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It was a spectacle with two acts at Florida’s Space Coast Sunday night when SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lit up the night skies twice, first when thundering into orbit with the Dragon SpX-9 cargo ship and again when the rocket’s first stage fell back toward a powered landing on a flat pad south of the launch site.
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It was a spectacle with two acts at Florida’s Space Coast Sunday night when SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lit up the night skies twice, first when thundering into orbit with the Dragon SpX-9 cargo ship and again when the rocket’s first stage fell back toward a powered landing on a flat pad south of the launch site.
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Video: Falcon 9 Launch with Dragon SpX-9 & Landing at Cape Canaveral
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SpaceX is counting down to a midnight hour launch of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket to dispatch the Dragon SpX-9 cargo spacecraft to orbit and attempt to return the rocket’s first stage to a powered landing at Landing Zone-1 south of Falcon’s Florida launch pad.
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SpaceX fired up its Falcon 9 rocket on Saturday in a last critical test ahead of a midnight liftoff on Monday from Florida’s Space Coast to send the Dragon SpX-9 spacecraft into orbit for an important cargo-delivery mission to the International Space Station.
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