Wires, plants, rodents — SpaceX’s Dragon cargo resupply ship brought back approximately 4,100 pounds of research from the International Space Station and dropped it into the Pacific Ocean over the weekend, Newsweek reports. The cargo is being recovered to hand over to NASA, with the company making the announcement of a successful drop and recovery on Twitter Saturday.
Good splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing the second resupply mission to and from the @Space_Station with a flight-proven commercial spacecraft.
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 13, 2018
Dragon is headed to port with ~4,100 pounds of scientific research and hardware for a cargo handover to @NASA. pic.twitter.com/7ebJJ188iO
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 13, 2018
In SpaceX’s latest move toward sustainable space travel, Newsweek notes, both the Dragon cargo capsule and a Falcon 9 rocket were reused for the first time to complete this mission.
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