Tomorrow morning, Thursday May 31, the SpaceX Dragon capsule will undock from the International Space Station, perform a series of maneuvers, and then come back home to Earth. Over at The Planetary Society Blog, Jason Davis has a great writeup giving the times of the key events. <\/p>\n
The preliminary stuff happens in the middle of the night for me in Colorado, but the actual descent to Earth happens at a much more palatable time. At 14:51 UTC (10:51 a.m. Eastern US time) the Dragon will begin the deorbit burn, dropping it lower in orbit. Less than an hour later, at 15:44 UTC it is scheduled to splash down in the Pacific ocean about 900 km (540 miles) off the coast of Los Angeles in California. <\/p>\n
This will all be covered by various live webstreams, including NASA TV. Ill be on Twitter as early as I can and Ill update this post with more video streams as I hear of them. <\/p>\n
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- SpaceX Dragon on its way to the ISS! - Dragon is approaching the space station UPDATED: CAPTURED! - When a Dragon mated the space station - Dragon hunting above, dragon hunting below <\/p>\n<\/p>\n
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