Lousy weather delays SpaceX Dragon’s departure from space station to Saturday
A SpaceX resupply ship will have to hold out at the very least one more working day just before returning to Earth.
Yesterday (Jan. 19), cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov ventured outside the house the risk-free confines of the Global Area Station to perform a seven-hour, 11-moment spacewalk. While the pair cleaned up next the spacewalk, SpaceX was getting ready its robotic Dragon cargo ship to appear back again to Earth. However, the temperature experienced other ideas.
The Dragon craft, which had previously been scheduled to appear household on Friday (Jan. 21), is now preparing to undock from the station Saturday (Jan. 22) due to a “forecast of inclement climate,” in accordance to a NASA weblog write-up.
You can view the undocking reside right here at Space.com or directly on NASA Tv set beginning at 10:40 a.m. EST (1540 GMT) on Saturday.
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This morning (Jan. 20), NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Thomas Marshburn organized the Dragon for its return trip, loading biology samples into the craft so that they can be analyzed right here on Earth. Barron and European Area Company astronaut Matthias Maurer also loaded freezers packed with supplemental scientific samples into the ship.
SpaceX will supply another update about undocking for the duration of a weather conditions briefing at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) on Friday. If the Dragon craft does undock Saturday as at the moment planned, it will splash down Sunday (Jan. 23) all-around 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT), but the final splashdown website has not been picked nevertheless, in accordance to the site put up.
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A SpaceX resupply ship will have to hold out at the very least one more working day just before returning to Earth.
Yesterday (Jan. 19), cosmonauts Anton Shkaplerov and Pyotr Dubrov ventured outside the house the risk-free confines of the Global Area Station to perform a seven-hour, 11-moment spacewalk. While the pair cleaned up next the spacewalk, SpaceX was getting ready its robotic Dragon cargo ship to appear back again to Earth. However, the temperature experienced other ideas.
The Dragon craft, which had previously been scheduled to appear household on Friday (Jan. 21), is now preparing to undock from the station Saturday (Jan. 22) due to a “forecast of inclement climate,” in accordance to a NASA weblog write-up.
You can view the undocking reside right here at Space.com or directly on NASA Tv set beginning at 10:40 a.m. EST (1540 GMT) on Saturday.
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This morning (Jan. 20), NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Thomas Marshburn organized the Dragon for its return trip, loading biology samples into the craft so that they can be analyzed right here on Earth. Barron and European Area Company astronaut Matthias Maurer also loaded freezers packed with supplemental scientific samples into the ship.
SpaceX will supply another update about undocking for the duration of a weather conditions briefing at 12 p.m. EST (1700 GMT) on Friday. If the Dragon craft does undock Saturday as at the moment planned, it will splash down Sunday (Jan. 23) all-around 4 p.m. EST (2100 GMT), but the final splashdown website has not been picked nevertheless, in accordance to the site put up.
E-mail Chelsea Gohd at cgohd@area.com or follow her on Twitter @chelsea_gohd. Comply with us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Fb.
