Undoing of the Dragon ship from the ISS was successful

SpaceX cargo ship returns scientific experiments to Earth

Today, the Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station. He will return to the Earth 1.5 tons of waste material, as well as freezers with samples of scientific experiments and the latest block of data and analyzes collected during the year of stay on the ISS of the American astronaut Scott Kelly and Russian cosmonaut Mikhail Kornienko.

Dragon from SpaceX is the only cargo ship capable of returning materials from the ISS.
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The live broadcast began at 16:00 Moscow time on all NASA TV channels. The command undock was given at 16:18 MSK.

The Dragon ship, developed by SpaceX, arrived on the ISS on April 10 with 3 tons of cargo and was docked within a month to the American Harmony module on the side of the station turned to Earth.

Today the ship is retracted from the module with the help of the mechanical arm Canadarm2 controlled by operators from the Earth. The operator Timothy Peak (Tim Peake) on board the ISS executed the command to undock the ship.



Dragon will turn on its engines three times to fly a safe distance from the station. At 21:00 Moscow time, he will be given a command to descend from orbit. After 5.5 hours after undocking from the ISS (at 21:55 Moscow time), the capsule with the materials is reduced to a given point in the Pacific Ocean.

In case of adverse conditions in the Pacific Ocean, the delivery of cargo will be postponed to May 14.

via NASA