Back capsule (SpaceX) after the task of re-supply the International Space Station

SpaceX tweeted owner. Dragon capsule dropped "Welcome home!" Decline slowed from three large umbrellas, water to 320 km (200 miles) off the coast of Mexico. Assign ships to pluck it from the water.Started the day with the crew using robotic arm on the ISS to complete the delicate separation of the capsule after the task more than just three weeks.Dragon delivery £ 1200 (544 kilograms) of materials, food and other scientific equipment through 2 (SpaceX) in returned three Russians and resupply capsule Canadian.The mission to the space station, which currently has a crew of two Americans, to the earth much heavier than outbound journey, also has more than 2,600 pounds of equipment from the tests conducted on the International Space Station has been designed . One to study the molecular changes to the small flowering plants in microgravity. And a related study revealed how plant roots hold in low-oxygen environments.Delayed Dragon docking with the International Space Station in early March after it was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida on a Falcon rocket for 24 hours because of a problem with the capsule defenses to quickly resolved.The trip was the third mission for SpaceX private - his name is an acronym for space exploration techniques - to the International Space Station under contract with NASA. First of missions and Back flight.The Test Event also later on than originally planned because of bad weather in the beginning to control down mission area.NASA for in the Houston deal with the uncoupling of the dragon of the International Space Station. SpaceX employees in Hawthorne, California was responsible for obtaining capsule through the atmosphere and return to Earth, with communications and other forms of support from making history when NASA.SpaceX Dragon became the first spacecraft commercial in history to attach successfully to the International Space Station, test 2012 May flight.Previously four governments - the United States, Russia, Japan and the European Space Agency - has achieved this technical feat.SpaceX challenge now begun regular missions to the International Space Station, and complete the task of re-supplying the first official October 2012.NASA is relying on SpaceX and other business projects to control the fleet of space shuttles retired, who flew participate in Mission July 2011.Before SpaceX successful in October, NASA had been relying on Russian spacecraft - but the Soyuz in the trades do not have room for cargo on the return flight . SpaceX says it launches planned 50 - all of NASA missions and commercial flights - an estimated $ 4 billion in contracts.So much, SpaceX has only sent flights uninhabited into orbit, but the company aims to send manned flight within three years or the next four years. It is under a separate contract with NASA to refine the capsule so you can afford also crew.NASA hold Supply for $ 1.9 billion plant with a science company that will launch its first orbital test flight of the rocket Antares from a base in the state of Virginia in the coming weeks.

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