Dragon was scheduled to come home on Friday (Jan. 21), but Mother Nature had other ideas.
. While the pair cleaned up following the spacewalk, SpaceX was preparing its robotic Dragon cargo ship to come back to Earth. Unfortunately, the weather had other plans.
The Dragon craft, which had previously been scheduled to come home on Friday , is now planning to undock from the station Saturday due to a"forecast of inclement weather,"You can watch the undocking live here at Space.com or directly on NASA TV beginning at 10:40 a.m. EST on Saturday.This morning , NASA astronauts Kayla Barron and Thomas Marshburn prepared the Dragon for its return trip, loading biology samples into the craft so that they can be analyzed here on Earth.
SpaceX will provide another update about undocking during a weather briefing at 12 p.m. EST on Friday. If the Dragon craft does undock Saturday as currently planned, it will splash down Sunday around 4 p.m. EST , but the final splashdown site has not been selected yet, according to the blog post.
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