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NASA and its international partners will soon receive scientific research samples and hardware from the International Space Station. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with the scientifc research and hardware will splash down at approximately 1:45 a.m. EDT on Sunday, May 25, off the coast of California. NASA will post updates on the agency’s space station blog but will not stream the splashdown.

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This long duration photograph reveals Earth's atmopsheric glow underneath star trails as the International Space Station orbited 258 miles above the Pacific Ocean southeast of Hawaii at approximately 8:16 p.m. local time. In the foreground (from left), is the Kibo laboratory module, the partially obscured SpaceX Dragon crew spacecraft docked to the Harmony module, the Canadarm2 robotic arm, and the Destiny laboratory module.

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The St. Clair River flows into the freshwater Lake St. Clair and separates the American state of Michigan (top) from the Canadian province of Ontario (bottom) in this photograph from the International Space Station as it orbited 260 miles above.
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