Dragon CRS-24 Undocks From the ISS

Credit: NASA

Dragon CRS-24 undocked from the International Space Station at 10:40am ET (15:35 UTC) on Sunday, January 23. It was docked to the zenith (space-facing) docking port of the Harmony module. After undocking, Cargo Dragon will do a series of maneuvers to lower the spacecraft's altitude. It is planned to splash down in off the coast of Florida (either the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico) at 12:44am ET (17:44 UTC) on Monday, January 24. This will conclude SpaceX''s fourth mission in the CRS (Commercial Resupply Services) 2 Contract to resupply the International Space Station. This contract uses the Dragon 2 spacecraft, that replaces the Dragon 1 spacecraft that flew 20 times in the original CRS contract from 2012 to 2020. CRS-24 launched on December 21, 2021, atop a Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket from LC-39A (at Kennedy Space Center), before docking a day later. This mission uses Dragon C209 andthis is the capsule's 2nd flight.