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12/16/2024 | News release | Distributed by Public on 12/16/2024 10:18

NASA+ Broadcasting Dragon Departing Station

[Link]The SpaceX Cargo Dragon resupply ship is photographed departing the space station on July 8, 2021.

NASA's live coverage of undocking and departure is underway on NASA+. Learn how to watch NASA contentthrough a variety of platforms, including social media.

The unpiloted SpaceX Dragon spacecraft will undock at 11:05 a.m. EST from the forward port of the space station's Harmony module and fire its thrusters to move a safe distance away from the station.

After re-entering Earth's atmosphere, the spacecraft will make a parachute-assistedsplashdown off the coast of Florida. NASA will not stream the splashdown but will post updates on the agency's space stationblog.

Filled with nearly 6,000 pounds of crew supplies, science investigations, and equipment, the spacecraft arrived to the orbiting laboratory Nov. 5 after it launched Nov. 4 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida for the agency's SpaceX 31st commercial resupply services mission.

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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