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A SpaceX Dragon cargo ship will depart space station today with a 'cytoskeleton' on board. Here's how to watch. - Space.com
Jan 22, 2022 1 min, 18 secs

SpaceX now aims to undock the Dragon cargo ship Sunday, Jan.

SpaceX postponed the departure of its latest Dragon cargo ship from the International Space Station on Saturday (Jan. 22) by at least a day due to bad weather at its landing site.

The Dragon CRS-24 cargo ship was scheduled to undock from the space station at 10:40 a.m.

You can watch SpaceX's Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft depart the space station live on this page Sunday, courtesy of NASA TV, beginning at 10:15 a.m.

Updates on splashdown will come through NASA's space station blog and SpaceX's Twitter page.

The Dragon cargo ship will return nearly 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of science to Earth when it splashes down, including a "cytoskeleton" that uses cell signaling to understand how the human body changes in microgravity.

The Dragon spacecraft blasted off on its cargo mission, called CRS-24, Dec!

Dragon is often used to carry back biological samples that must be transferred to a scientific facility quickly; splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean will allow for rapid transfer of samples to NASA's Kennedy Space Center in coastal Florida, east of Orlando.

Members of the Expedition 66 crew have been packing up and organizing Dragon supplies for at least the last two weeks, according to NASA's space station blog, including swapping out science freezer components that will host the precious refrigerated science samples.

Editor's note: This story was updated to reflect the 24-hour weather delay for SpaceX's Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft undocking at the International Space Station.

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