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[b]Dragon departs station to return cargo to Earth[/b] At 11:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT) on Friday (Aug. 19), flight controllers sent commands to release the uncrewed SpaceX Dragon spacecraft from the forward port of the International Space Station's Harmony module. At the time of release at 11:05 a.m., the station was flying about 259 miles over the Pacific Ocean. The Dragon spacecraft successfully departed the space station one month after arriving at the orbiting laboratory to deliver about 4,000 pounds of scientific investigations and supplies. Tomorrow (Aug. 20), ground controllers at SpaceX in Hawthorne, California, will command a deorbit burn. After re-entering Earth's atmosphere, the spacecraft will make a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at 2:53 p.m. EDT (1853 GMT).
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