SpaceX F9 : CRS SpX-17 : May 4, 2019 - UPDATES

[FutureSpaceTourist]

https://twitter.com/ken_kremer/status/1126214536636313601

BOOSTER RETURNS TO CAPE- With all 4 landing legs retracted 1st time @SpaceX #Falcon9 #CRS17 launched/landed 1st stage transported horizontally back to Cape Canaveral 1 PM ET today-big milestone! Potentially recycled to #SpaceX #CRS18 cargo mission to @Space_Station #ISS for @NASA

[RocketLover0119]

US Launch Report video of the lift from OCISLY to land, and the leg lifts:

[Scylla]

SpaceX First Ever Load And Transport With Legs 05-08-2019

USLaunchReport

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!CARF 05/129 (KZAK A2217/19)  ZAK AIRSPACE DCC SPACEX CRS17 DRAGON REENT STNR ALT RESERVATION WI AN AREA DEFINED AS 3205N11946W TO 3143N12010W TO 3119N12037W TO 3055N12104W TO 3031N12132W TO 3005N12202W TO 3035N12238W TO 3105N12316W TO 3132N12246W TO 3156N12217W TO 3219N12147W TO 3240N12118W TO 3259N12050W TO POINT OF ORIGIN. SFC-UNL 1906032130-1906032200

[Rondaz]

Science Results Packed for Return to Earth Aboard Dragon Monday

Mark Garcia Posted on May 31, 2019

The Expedition 59 crew is starting the weekend preparing the SpaceX Dragon cargo craft for its departure from the International Space Station on Monday. The space residents are also juggling a variety of research work and lab maintenance tasks today.

NASA TV is broadcasting the robotic release of Dragon from the station live on NASA TV beginning Monday at 11:45 a.m. EDT.  Robotics controllers will command the Canadarm2 robotic arm to release the space freighter around 12:09 p.m. while astronaut David Saint-Jacques monitors from the cupola. Dragon will splashdown in the Pacific about 5:48 p.m. and will not be seen on NASA TV.

Several critical experiments have wrapped up aboard the orbiting lab with the completed results and hardware being packed inside the Dragon this weekend. After the space freighter splashes down Monday, it will be towed to shore where the finalized research will be distributed to labs around the world for analysis.

Astronauts Anne McClain and David Saint-Jacques are cleaning up and inspecting the Life Sciences Glovebox (LSG) today. This comes after the crew completed a month-long study of the immune system’s response to weightlessness inside the LSG. Samples from that study will also return to Earth aboard Dragon Monday.

The pair first joined Flight Engineer Nick Hague during the morning checking out space biology hardware and transferring more frozen research samples into Dragon’s science freezers. Hague and McClain then participated in regularly scheduled eye exams in the afternoon.

Christina Koch of NASA is helping cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Alexey Ovchinin clean up after the duo’s spacewalk on Wednesday. She stowed the U.S. tools they used back in the Quest airlock while the cosmonauts serviced their Russian Orlan spacesuits in the Pirs airlock.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2019/05/31/science-results-packed-for-return-to-earth-aboard-dra...