{"id":18182,"date":"2019-01-13T20:29:59","date_gmt":"2019-01-13T12:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacexs-dragon-cargo-ship-leaves-space-station-and-splashes-down-in-the-dark\/"},"modified":"2019-01-13T20:29:59","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T12:29:59","slug":"spacexs-dragon-cargo-ship-leaves-space-station-and-splashes-down-in-the-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacexs-dragon-cargo-ship-leaves-space-station-and-splashes-down-in-the-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Dragon cargo ship leaves space station and splashes down in the dark"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_473520\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-473520\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full-width wp-image-473520\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190113-spacex-630x352.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX Dragon release\" width=\"630\" height=\"352\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190113-spacex-630x352.jpg 630w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190113-spacex-768x429.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cdn.geekwire.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/190113-spacex.jpg 932w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 630px) 100vw, 630px\"><figcaption data-nosnippet=\"\" id=\"caption-attachment-473520\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s uncrewed Dragon cargo ship is released by the International Space Station\u2019s robotic arm. (NASA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s robotic Dragon cargo ship splashed down in the Pacific Ocean tonight, bringing science experiments and used hardware from the International Space Station back to Earth after dark.<\/p>\n<p>The Dragon delivered nearly 3 tons of food, supplies and experiments to the station on Dec. 8, and it took more than four weeks to unload the cargo and reload the Dragon with payloads for the return trip. NASA delayed the Dragon\u2019s descent by several days due to concerns about weather in the recovery area.<\/p>\n<p>The station\u2019s robotic arm released the Dragon at 3:33 p.m. PT, and the craft parachuted to its splashdown just before 9:15 p.m. SpaceX\u2019s recovery ship headed to the scene to pull the Dragon out of the sea and bring it back to port in California.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"SpaceX CRS-16: Dragon departure from the ISS\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mmfS-RJabzM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"\" data-ratio=\"0.5625\" data-width=\"800\" data-height=\"450\" style=\"display: block; margin: 0px; width: 800px; height: 450px;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Even though the splashdown and recovery came well after sunset, NASA said in a status update that there was \u201cplenty of moonlight to track its entry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>NASA provided minimal streaming-video coverage of the Dragon\u2019s return due to the partial government shutdown.<\/p>\n<p>An updated, crew-capable version of the Dragon is due for its first launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as early as next month. That demonstration mission to the space station and back, known as SpaceX DM-1, should set the stage for the first Dragon flight to carry astronauts, potentially sometime this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s uncrewed Dragon cargo ship is released by the International Space Station\u2019s robotic arm. (NASA Photo) SpaceX\u2019s robotic Dragon cargo ship splashed down in the Pacific Ocean tonight, bringing science experiments and used hardware from the International Space Station back to Earth after dark. The Dragon delivered nearly 3 tons of food, supplies and experiments [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1395,717,190,316],"class_list":["post-18182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-dragon","tag-international-space-station","tag-nasa","tag-spacex"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}