The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is being uninstalled from the International Space Station via robotic controller, sending the results of the Expedition 54 team's life sciences experiments to Earth. NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson and Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Sergey Ryazanskiy are scheduled for a spacewalk on Saturday (Oct. 19) that will remove the Dragon capsule from its docking Dragon is expected to splash down off the coast of California on Sunday morning.
The SpaceX Dragon cargo craft is being uninstalled from the International Space Station via robotic controller, sending the results of the Expedition 54 team's life sciences experiments to Earth. The crew have been examining how space living affects biology, including how muscle loss in microgravity can be reduced using a compound, and how genetic and molecular responses in plants change in space. Dragon is expected to splash down off the coast of California on Sunday morning.