SpaceX completed the 2nd resupply mission for ISS

On March 26, SpaceX Dragon unmanned cargo ship of Space Technology Exploration Group SpaceX returned to Earth safely after completing its mission on the International Space Station (ISS).

In the announcement on the Twitter website, California-based SpaceX said that with the help of three large umbrellas, the Dragon had landed on the Pacific Ocean, about off the coast of Mexico. 320km.

SpaceX Dragon completed the resupply mission on the International Space Station. (Photo: Internet)

For the second time on this ISS, Dragon ship completed its mission in just over 3 weeks, moving over 540kg of food, scientific equipment and other equipment to the team working on the ISS of 2 scientists. America, 3 Russians and 1 Canadian.

The Dragon has brought to Earth more than a ton of equipment and supplies from scientific experiments carried out on ISS, much heavier than the volume of supplies that the ISS supplies in the last mission.

One of these devices is designed to study molecular changes for a small flower in a zero gravity state, and another to test how roots grow in a low oxygen environment. .

Owned by Elon Musk, billionaire co-founder of Paypal, SpaceX is one of many private companies working with the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) to make round-trip flights between Earth. and ISS.

NASA signed a $ 1.6 billion contract with SpaceX to make at least 12 supply flights for ISS in the coming years. SpaceX was the first company to make this commercial flight.

So far, SpaceX has only unmanned flights to orbit but the company plans to partner with NASA to make manned flights to space in the next 4 years.

Since the end of NASA's spacecraft operation program in 2011, NASA has hired Russia's Soyuz spacecraft to transport its crew to the ISS, but Soyuz has no cargo space.