MORE NEWS: SpaceX completes 1st rocket launch of 2021"Splashing down off the coast of Florida enables quick transportation of the science aboard the capsule to the agency’s Kennedy Space Center’s Space Station Processing Facility, and back into the hands of the researchers," NASA said.
AdvertisementDragon launched Dec. 6 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, arriving at the station just over 24 hours later and achieving the first autonomous docking of a U.S.
commercial cargo resupply spacecraft. It represented the company’s 21st resupply services mission for NASA. Previous arriving cargo Dragon spacecraft were captured and attached to the space station by astronauts operating the.