CRS-23: Cargo Dragon’s Fiery Return to Earth

After launching from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 3:14 AM on August 29th delivering food, water, and new science experiments to the astronauts, on the morning of September 30th, at 9:13 AM Eastern Daylight Time — SpaceX’s 23rd Cargo Dragon undocked from the International Space Station, completed nearly 9 more orbits of the world, and then dipped back into the atmosphere to bring scientists and engineers the critical findings only experiments performed off Earth could yield. Explore with me how my long-exposure photograph of this event came to be from inception to creation in this short story!

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