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Dragon Released from ISS, Heading Home

Dragon Released from ISS, Heading Home

High above Burma, ISS astronauts released the SpaceX CRS-1 Dragon capsule at 8:29 AM CST.  Following two brief burns to safely remove the spacecraft from  the International Space Station’s “keep out sphere”   the craft rotated, accelerated and began heading back to Earth for an estimated landing at 2:20  PM CST. The deorbit burn, which will lower […]

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