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SpaceX Dragon Launches Today: How to Watch the Record-Breaking NASA Mission Live
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SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsule wrapped up its CRS-32 mission overnight, splashing down safely off the coast of California at 1:45 a.m. PT on Sunday, 25 May 2025, after a flawless parachute-assisted descent. The reusable spacecraft had undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) two days earlier, loaded with more than 4,500 lb (≈2,040 kg) of research samples, experiments and critical hardware.
Sonic boom wakes Southern California
Residents from San Diego to Los Angeles heard an early-morning sonic boom as Dragon streaked across the pre-dawn sky, a signature of its hypersonic re-entry. The capsule’s heat shield weathered temperatures topping 3,000 °F before dual drogue and main parachutes slowed it for a gentle Pacific splashdown where SpaceX recovery teams were waiting.
What Dragon brought home
• Microgravity-grown protein crystals for next-generation drug development
• Plant genetics studies designed to boost crop resilience on Earth
• Live-culture bioreactors that investigated bacteria’s response to space radiation
• ISS hardware due for refurbishment or analysis
NASA scientists will off-load time-sensitive samples within hours of landing and fly them to Houston for immediate study, keeping the experiment “return-to-lab” interval under 48 hours.
Mission by the numbers
• 32nd commercial resupply flight by SpaceX under NASA’s CRS contract
• 3rd flight for this specific Dragon capsule, demonstrating full reusability
• 20 ft³ of pressurized cargo volume delivered to—and from—the ISS
• Total Dragon flights (crew + cargo) now at 46 since the vehicle’s 2010 debut
How to rewatch the journey
While NASA did not livestream the splashdown, full coverage of the May 23 undocking remains on NASA+, and SpaceX’s official X (Twitter) account has posted re-entry highlights for space enthusiasts catching up on the weekend milestone.
Why it matters
Every successful Dragon splashdown tightens SpaceX’s two-week turnaround goal for cargo vehicles, a cadence that cuts time-to-market for pharmaceutical, agricultural and materials science breakthroughs born in microgravity. The CRS-33 launch, carrying fresh supplies and another batch of cutting-edge experiments, is already penciled in for late July.
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