<ul><li>The Expedition 72 crew is preparing to return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft.</li><li>They are packing up finalized science experiments and transferring research samples from the International Space Station into the Dragon for retrieval and analysis on Earth.</li><li>The crew also studied antibiotic resistant bacteria and set up space botany hardware.</li><li>Dragon is scheduled to undock on Thursday and splashdown off the coast of Florida the following day.</li></ul>

Crew Finalizing Science For Return to Earth Aboard Dragon

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