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mikeash on Aug 27, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship splashes down in Pacifi...

Dragon has an unpressurized "trunk" which it can use to carry stuff like this. Here's a picture (a rendering, looks like, but it gets the point across) of the adapter being removed from Dragon's trunk:

http://imgur.com/LAMS49w

The rear part (with the solar panels) is discarded before the capsule at the top returns to Earth.

hedgehog on Aug 27, 2016 [–]

Here are some photos of the trunk on the ground: http://www.spacex.com/news/2013/03/26/dragon-trunk

Quite a lot of space in there.

ygra on Aug 28, 2016 | [–]

The BEAM was transported in the trunk as well. That couldn't have fit through any hatch either.

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