SpaceX CRS-22 Return

An Airbus H225 helicopter with cargo from SpaceX’s 22nd commercial resupply services mission lands during the early morning on July 10, 2021, at the Launch and Landing Facility at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. From there, contractor Jacobs transported the cargo to the center’s Space Station Processing Facility (SSPF). After its successful parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida, at 11:29 p.m. EST on Friday, July 9, the SpaceX cargo Dragon returned more than 5,300 pounds of scientific experiments and other cargo from the International Space Station. Splashing down off the coast of Florida enables quick transportation of the science aboard the capsule to the SSPF, delivering some science back into the hands of the researchers as soon as four to nine hours after splashdown. This shorter transportation timeframe allows researchers to collect data with minimal loss of microgravity effects.