SpaceX news and updates revealed the success of traveling between Earth and the International Space Station. Also, the dragon capsule's journey stunned the world with magnitude and awe.
CBS News reports that, "A SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule departed the International Space Station and plunged back to Earth Wednesday, bringing down more than 3,700 pounds of station cargo and research material, including urine, saliva and blood samples collected from Scott Kelly during his recent nearly one-year stay aboard the lab."
The automated Dragon capsule, which arrived at the International Space Station on April 10, was detached from the Earth-facing port of the forward Harmony module and released by the lab's robot arm at 9:19 a.m. EDT (GMT-4), reports the same post.
It has been noted that the SpaceX Dragon cargo capsule safely landed 261 miles southeast of Long Beach, California, at 2:51 p.m. Also, this particular spacecraft carried vital inputs concerning Kelly's time on the ISS for 340 days to help researchers better understand what happens to the human body during long-term spaceflight and his samples collected during his stay on the ISS, will provide a snapshot of the body changes Kelly went through, reports The Verge.
Despite the huge success, it is not the bottom line for SpaceX. Eventually, SpaceX hopes to land the crewed version of its Dragon by reigniting engines on board the capsule, to perform a controlled landing on solid ground and it is how SpaceX intends to land Dragons on Mars in 2018, but the company has yet to land a capsule this way, as noted by the same post.
SpaceX may have successfully brought back the Dragon cargo capsule that stunned the world, but the challenges have not ended even though it was a successful traversing between the Earth and the International Space Station.
