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Ax-4 Undocks from Station Inside Dragon for Earth Return

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with the Axiom Mission 4 crew inside is pictured docked to the International Space Station's space-facing port on the Harmony module.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with the Axiom Mission 4 crew inside is pictured docked to the International Space Station’s space-facing port on the Harmony module. In the foreground, is the Canadarm2 robotic arm and its latching end effector.
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The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked at 7:15 a.m. EDT from the space-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module, completing the fourth private astronaut mission to the orbiting laboratory, Axiom Mission 4 (Ax-4). 

Dragon is slowly maneuvering away from the station into an orbital track that will return the crew and its cargo safely to Earth, targeting a splashdown off the coast of California on Tuesday, July 15.

NASA’s coverage will end in approximately 30 minutes when space station joint operations with Axiom Space and SpaceX conclude. Axiom Space will resume coverage of Dragon’s re-entry and splashdown on the company’s website. 

The Dragon spacecraft is returning with more than 580 pounds of cargo, including NASA hardware and data from over 60 experiments conducted during the mission. 

Learn more about station activities by following the space station blog, @space_station on X, as well as the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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