SpaceX’s newest Dragon Cargo is scheduled to lift off from the space station on Saturday January 22, 2022 at 10:40 US time and is expected to arrive on Monday January 24, 2022 morning. The delay was carried out for at least one day to ensure that the weather at the landing site returned to normal.
“SpaceX and NASA have canceled planned departures for the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft due to strong winds in the splashdown zone in the Gulf,” said NASA spokeswoman Sandra Jones. (Read also; SpaceX Launches 49 Starlink Internet Satellites into Space )
The cargo ship Dragon will bring to Earth a payload of 2,267 kilograms, consisting of scientific tools, including a “cytoskeleton” that uses cell signals to understand how the human body changes in microgravity. Including a 12-year-old light-imaging microscope that has been retired after more than a decade in space.
The SpaceX Dragon cargo was delivered to the International Space Station on December 22, 2022 carrying tons of supplies, Christmas gifts, and food for the astronauts. Dragon CRS-24 is the only cargo ship that can fly back to Earth to carry various cargoes.
Because, almost all spacecraft will burn up in the atmosphere upon re-entry to Earth. The Dragon Cargo Ship is often used to bring back biological samples that must be immediately transferred to a scientific facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on the Florida coast, east of Orlando. (Read also; 13 DART Launch Process Sequence with SpaceX Falcon 9 . Rocket )
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