The unmanned SpaceX Dragon cargo ship undocked from the International Space Station Sunday morning and is on its way to Earth. Known as the CRS-24 cargo ship, it successfully exited the ISS’s “keep out sphere” at 10”40 a.m. The previously scheduled attempt was postponed due to bad weather at its landing location off the Florida coast.
The keep out sphere is a 200-metre radius around the ISS, The undocking was broadcasted live on NASA TV and on its social media platforms. According to NASA, the Dragon capsule is expected to have a “parachute-assisted splashdown” off the coast of Panama City, Florida at roughly 3:05 p.m. CST Monday.
The experiments conducted aboard the capsule will be brought to NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility at the Kennedy Space Center after landing. NASA stated “splashing down off the coast of Florida enables quick transportation of the experiments to NASA’s Space Station Processing Facility at the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida,”
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