SpaceX newest Dragon cargo ship is expected to undock from the International Space Station today (Jan. 23) after 2 days of hold-ups due to bad weather condition at its landing website and you can enjoy it live online.The Dragon CRS-24 cargo ship is scheduled to undock from the spaceport station at 10:40 a.m. EST (1540 GMT) today. You can watch it live on this page beginning at 10:15 a.m. EST (1515 GMT), thanks to NASA TELEVISION. The Dragon was formerly scheduled to leave the station Saturday for a Monday splashdown, but bad weather condition at potential splashdown locations in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast avoided the departure, according to SpaceX. ” SpaceX and NASA have actually waived off todays prepared departure of an upgraded SpaceX Dragon resupply spacecraft due to high winds in the splashdown zones at the Gulf,” NASA spokesperson Sandra Jones said during a NASA TV update Saturday.Related: Live updates from the International Space Station The SpaceX Dragon CRS-24 freight ship will undock from the International Space Stations space-facing docking port on the Harmony module on Jan. 23, 2021. (Image credit: NASA) There will be no live protection of SpaceXs Dragon splashdown, though it is expected to happen either late Monday or early Tuesday, weather allowing. Updates on splashdown will come through NASAs space station blog and SpaceXs Twitter page.The Dragon cargo ship will return nearly 5,000 pounds (2,267 kilograms) of science to Earth when it crashes, including a “cytoskeleton” that uses cell signaling to understand how the human body modifications in microgravity. A 12-year-old light imaging microscope that is being retired after more than a years of usage studying the structure of matter and plants in orbit is likewise on board.The pill was originally targeting Friday to undock and Saturday to crash, but the treatment was postponed by a day due to bad climate condition for returning. If the Dragon had undocked Saturday early morning, it would have splashdown in the wee hours of Monday, according to NASA.The Dragon spacecraft launched on its freight mission, called CRS-24, Dec. 21 atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and delivered both science and a set of early Christmas provides to the orbiting complicated 2 days later.Dragon is the only cargo ship that can fly clinical experiments back to scientists in the world, as all other such spacecraft burn up in the atmosphere throughout re-entry. Dragon is often used to bring back biological samples that should be moved to a clinical facility quickly; crashing in the Atlantic Ocean will permit for quick transfer of samples to NASAs Kennedy Space Center in coastal Florida, east of Orlando.Members of the Expedition 66 crew have actually been evacuating and arranging Dragon materials for a minimum of the last 2 weeks, according to NASAs spaceport station blog, consisting of switching out science freezer elements that will host the precious cooled science samples.Editors note: This story was upgraded to reflect the 24-hour weather hold-up for SpaceXs Dragon CRS-24 spacecraft undocking at the International Space Station.Follow Elizabeth Howell on Twitter @howellspace. Follow us on Twitter @Spacedotcom and on Facebook..
