SpaceX’s Dragon CRS-25 successfully undocked from the forward port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station (ISS) at 1505 GMT on 19 August. The uncrewed CRS-25 resupply spacecraft made a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at 1853 GMT on 20 August with over 1800 kg of scientific investigations and supplies.
CRS-25 undocks from the Harmony module of the ISS. Courtesy: NASA
Prior to splashdown CRS-25 separated from the trunk (which will eventually re-enter due to atmospheric drag) before conducted a final deorbit burn at 1804 GMT, setting a course to land off the coast of Florida. Soon after splashdown north of Cape Canaveral off the Florida coast, SpaceX’s recovery teams secured the capsule before beginning its return to Port Canaveral.
Dragon CRS-25 had been docked with the ISS for nearly 34 days. It contained a scientific cargo of experiments and station gear including:
- Results of Misse-15-NASA, which looked at the impact of space on materials
- SERFE (Spacesuit Evaporation Rejection Flight Experiment), a study of new technology using water evaporation to remove heat from spacesuits and
- ESA’s sponsored investigation into a First Aid Handheld Bioprinter using bio-inks that contain the patient’s own cell to form a patch in the case of injury
