The return home is not a smooth transition from weightlessness to 1-g for astronauts that return home via the Soyuz capsule.

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We also reached a critically important milestone in May when SpaceX became the first private company to send a spacecraft -- the Dragon cargo capsule -- to the International Space Station and return it with cargo intact.

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The capsule, called Foton-12, was launched on September 9th and is due to return on September 25th.

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