SpaceX's Dragon cargo capsule splashed down off the coast of southern California yesterday afternoon, successfully completing the first commercial flight to ISS.
Among other things brought back to Earth by Dragon are blood and urine samples from ISS crews. The samples, part of ongoing biological research, have been stored aboard ISS since the space shuttle's retirement because, until Dragon, there was no way to get them to Earth.
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