[junta]

Then what do they do with the capsule?

[JRandomFreeper]

The capsule comes back later with about 1300 lbs of trash, old equipment, etc....

And then it gets refurbished, refueled, and re-used.

/johnny

[GeorgeWashingtonsGhost]

“On May 31, the capsule will be detached from the station and sent back down toward a Pacific Ocean splashdown and recovery off the coast of Southern California. That part of the operation went off successfully during Dragon’s first orbital test mission in December 2010, but this would mark the first-ever return of a commercial spacecraft from the space station. Russia’s Soyuz capsule is the only other existing space vehicle capable of returning space station payloads.”