The first private spacecraft returned to Earth safely

The Dragon's spacecraft, the world's first private spacecraft, returned to Earth safely on October 28, completing its first commercial mission on the International Space Station (ISS).

The private spacecraft of California-based private company SpaceX has completed its first mission in 12 missions signed with NASA.

Dragon ship 'landed' in the Pacific Ocean, west of Mexico on 12h22 on October 28 (local time).

SpaceX returned to bring an unusual shipment.

The Dragon robot ship was launched into space on October 7, carrying 400kg of clothes, food, testing equipment and other supplies for 6 astronauts on the ISS. After that, the ship stayed in ISS for 3 days.

During the return trip, Dragon brought with him a special shipment, which was damaged equipment and medical samples collected by astronauts on ISS during the past 1 year.

SpaceX's next mission is expected to take place in January next year.

NASA signed a $ 1.6 billion contract with SpaceX to ship goods to ISS, after the US aerospace agency retired. In addition to SpaceX, NASA hopes the second private company Orbital Sciences Corporation (OSC) will soon begin shipping them to ISS. OSC's first mission is expected next year, according to a contract worth $ 1.9 billion.

NASA hopes to eventually give the private sector the mission to bring astronauts to ISS, in order to save costs and let the agency focus on developing missiles as well as a ship-capable vessel system. humans reach more challenging locations in the universe.