page_title: SpaceX CRS-1
section_title: Remainder of mission (11 to 28 October)
hierarchical_section_title: SpaceX CRS-1 / Mission timeline / Remainder of mission (11 to 28 October)
caption_attribution_description: English: ed12-0346-20 (30 Oct. 2012) --- SpaceX's Dragon capsule is seen shortly after arriving at a port near Los Angeles on Oct. 30, 2012. Dragon had just completed its first commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station and returned 1,673 pounds of science and supplies back to Earth.
context_page_description: SpaceX CRS-1, also known as SpX-1, was the third flight for Space Exploration Technologies Corporation's uncrewed Dragon cargo spacecraft, the fourth overall flight for the company's two-stage Falcon 9 launch vehicle, and the first SpaceX operational mission under their Commercial Resupply Services contract with NASA. The launch occurred on 8 October 2012 at 00:34:07 UTC.
context_section_description: Over a period of two and a half weeks, the ISS crew unloaded Dragon's payload and reloaded it with cargo for return to Earth.
  After its mission at the orbital laboratory was completed, newly arrived Expedition 33 Flight Engineer Kevin Ford used the Canadarm2 robotic arm to detach Dragon from Harmony, maneuver it out to the 15 metres (49 ft) release point, and release the vehicle. The Dragon then performed a series of three burns to place it on a trajectory away from the station. Approximately six hours after Dragon departed the station, it conducted a deorbit burn, which lasted up to 10 minutes. It takes about 30 minutes for Dragon to reenter in the Earth's atmosphere, allowing it to splashdown in the Pacific Ocean, about 450 kilometres (280 mi) off the coast of southern California. The Dragon's trunk, which contains its solar arrays, have then be jettisoned.
  The landing was controlled by automatic firing of its Draco thrusters during the atmospheric reentry. In a carefully timed sequence of events, dual drogue parachutes deploy at an altitude of 13,700 metres (44,900 ft) to stabilize and slow the spacecraft. The full deployment of the drogues triggers the release of the three main parachutes, each 35 metres (115 ft) in diameter, at about 3,000 metres (9,800 ft). While the drogues detach from the spacecraft, the main parachutes further slow the spacecraft's descent to approximately 4.8 to 5.4 metres per second (16 to 18 ft/s). Even if Dragon were to lose one of its main parachutes, the two remaining chutes would still permit a safe landing. The Dragon capsule is expected to land in the Pacific Ocean, about 450 kilometres (280 mi) off the coast of southern California. SpaceX uses a 30 metres (98 ft) boat equipped with an A-frame and an articulating crane, a 27.3 metres (90 ft) crew boat for telemetry operations, and two 7.3 metres (24 ft) rigid-hull inflatable boats to perform recovery operations. Onboard are approximately a dozen SpaceX engineers and technicians as well as a four-person dive team. Once the Dragon capsule splashed down, the recovery team secured the vehicle and then placed it on deck for the journey back to shore.
  SpaceX technicians opened the side hatch of the vehicle and retrieved the time-critical items. The critical cargo items were placed on a fast-boat for the 450 kilometres (280 mi) trip back to California for eventual return to NASA that then took care of the precious science cargo and handle the post-flight analysis of the samples. The rest of the cargo was unloaded once the Dragon capsule reached SpaceX's test facility in McGregor, Texas.
caption: The SpX-1 capsule seen back at a port on 30 October 2012.
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