CRS-17 Delivery Returns Cargo Dragon to Station

Will Smoot

May 4, 2019

Filtered by Category: NASA

SpaceX's CRS-17 launch marks two "returns" to the International Space Station: in general, the return of cargo dragon flights following the successful Crew Dragon demo in March 2019, and specifically, the re-use of the Dragon capsule from the CRS-12 mission, returning to station after its August 2017 mission.

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