CRS-21 Dragon undocking
The CRS-21 Dragon cargo spacecraft undocked from the ISS Jan. 12 and splashed down off the Florida coast less than 36 hours later. Credit: NASA

WASHINGTON — The first in SpaceX’s new generation of Dragon cargo spacecraft completed its mission with a splashdown off the Florida coast Jan. 13.

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Jeff Foust writes about space policy, commercial space, and related topics for SpaceNews. He earned a Ph.D. in planetary sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s degree with honors in geophysics and planetary science...