On Tuesday, Jan. 7, the Dragon CRS-19 which had been docked to the ISS since Dec. 8, 2019. The Commercial Resupply Mission sent 5700 lbs of NASA supplies to the station including the “might mice” bone and muscle loss experiment, and the Budweiser “space beer” experiment to see how barley seeds grow in microgravity.

CRS-19 was launched on Dec. 5 and berthed to ISS on the 8th. This was the third resupply mission for this spacecraft. The capsule was released from the station at 5:05 am EST and landed in the Pacific at 10:41 am EST. SpaceX announced the successful landing in a Tweet shortly after.

Splashdown of Dragon confirmed, completing this spacecraft’s third mission to and from the @space_station!

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 7, 2020

They also Tweeted photos of the capsule onboard the recovery ship.

Dragon after returning to Earth from its four-week stay at the @space_station – SpaceX’s eighth mission with a flight-proven spacecraft pic.twitter.com/PZOTF1VX4R

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) January 8, 2020

Our California photographer, Justin Hartney, was at the pier waiting and caught some excellent pictures of the return to port.

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