Space X Dragon to return to earth today

Attention, earthlings: the Space X Dragon capsule is on its way home. Well, if by ‘way’ you mean hurtling through the atmosphere and ‘home’ you mean a splash-landing in the Pacific Ocean.

The first privately funded and built space craft to dock at the International Space Station (ISS) left earth just over a week ago and was captured by the ISS on 25 May. After spending five days attached to the station while its crew unloaded supplies and picked up some new cargo, it was released this morning to start its journey back to earth. It is scheduled to land a few hundred kilometres off the coast of southern California at approximately 17:44 CAT (GMT +2).

Space X and NASA have dutifully chronicled the journey on Twitter, and there is also a video if you’d like to watch the Dragon slowly (and I mean slowly) drift into space just over the coast of southern Africa.

Space X is the brainchild of South African-born PayPal co-founder, inventor, engineer and billionaire genius Elon Musk.

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