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SpaceX Dragon capsule heading back to Earth

Dunya News

Space Exploration Technologies' Dragon spaceship was poised to wrap up a pioneering test.

The flight was the first by a private company to the International Space Station, and head back to Earth on Thursday.Dragon became the first privately owned vehicle to reach the $100 billion research complex, a project of 15 countries, on Friday when astronauts used the stations robot arm to pluck it from orbit and latch it onto a berthing port as the spacecraft sailed about 250 miles above the planet.