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[b]Dragon return to Earth scheduled for Tuesday[/b] More than three weeks after arriving at the International Space Station, SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft is ready for the trip back to Earth, now scheduled for Tuesday (March 26). The Dragon's return date, originally scheduled for March 25, was postponed due to inclement weather developing near its targeted splashdown site in the Pacific Ocean. The additional day spent attached to the orbiting laboratory will not affect science samples scheduled to return aboard the spacecraft. The removal of Dragon from the space station begins at 3:05 a.m. CDT (0805 GMT), with release scheduled for 6:06 a.m. CDT (1106 GMT). Dragon will conduct a series of engine burns to take it away from the space station with the third and final departure burn taking place around 7:16 a.m. CDT (1216 GMT). Dragon's deorbit burn will take place approximately 10:40 a.m. CDT (1540 GMT) with splashdown scheduled for 11:36 a.m. (1636 GMT) about 246 miles off the coast of Baja, California. Dragon will take about 30 hours to return to port, at which point several critical science samples will be handed over to NASA for a return trip back to Houston that day.
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