Updated 2:03 p.m. ET, Thursday, May 31
After completing the first-ever docking of a private spacecraft with the International Space Station, the ambitious private U.S. company SpaceX is today attempting to do the same thing in reverse by disconnecting its Dragon cargo vessel from the station and piloting it back to Earth, for a planned parachute landing in the Pacific Ocean.
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