He delivered about 2.9 tons of cargo to Earth from the ISS
NEW YORK, October 1. /TASS/. The Dragon cargo ship of the American company SpaceX on Thursday evening landed on water in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Florida. This was reported on Twitter by SpaceX.
The ship landed at 22:59 on the time of the East Coast of the USA (05:59 Moscow time on Friday). He delivered about 2.9 tons of cargo to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS), including the results of scientific experiments. Dragon undocked from the space station earlier on Thursday in automatic mode.
Dragon, as part of SpaceX's 23rd commercial resupply mission to the ISS, delivered various equipment for conducting scientific experiments to the station on August 30, in particular devices that can detect vision problems and will help combat them. In addition, he took on board a variety of useful materials, including concrete, composites and substances capable of protecting against the effects of radiation.
Currently, seven crew members are on board the station: Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov, NASA astronauts Mark Vande Hai, Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Tom Peske, as well as Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
