docking, we re only 17 1/2 meters away. we ve confirmed the alignment. and we ve got additional screws now trained on dragon, giving additional situational awareness. we re continuing to get those updates from the navigational equipment on board dragon. the lidar is giving realtime range rates. we re getting realtime degrees. and that s also being fed to the crew in realtime. they don t have that video, but they do have all of that additional data that s able to give them enough data to make decisions for aborting if they need to. so, we have proceeded. we are go for docking. dragon s flying in. it s moving at less than a tenth of a meter per second. we re just about 15 meters away now from the docking port on the space station side of node 2. it should be three minutes away from docking. so
the long axis is northeast to southwest. and that might indicate to me there might be some material dangling into the water at the southwest end and the currents are moving in that direction. and this feature is just being dragged along. by that. so do you think it s the same object? it s very difficult to say. 80 miles 80 miles in two days. that s about one meter per second, that was said before. however, the currents in that area, on average, move from west to east at about a less than less than half a meter per second. and however, there are strong eddies in the area that will conto contort. and it s true, looking at the satellite images, the currents did have a slightly southerly motion. but i find it difficult to believe it would move 80 miles
those phone records in the first place. well, three astronauts are on their way back to earth tonight after five months aboard the international space station. earlier this afternoon they said their good byes and closed the hatch on the capsule and just minutes ago they undocked and set off from the station. operations from the international space station confirmed. altitude of 255 statue miles over eastern among mongolia. one tenth of a meter per second. they are scheduled to touch down in kazakhstan in about three hours. here is the headline. before they left the commander chris hatfield released a music video. the folks at nasa believe it s the first one ever recorded recorded in space. this is major tom ground patrol i have left forever more and i m floating in a most
chile s flag. he s got the glasses on. there s a little bit of an adjustment with the harness that he s putting on, a hug and then he gets into the capsule and for the longest ride of his life. exactly. you know it. but you calculated on your stopwatch. i m going to set my stopwatch on this one. you said 16-odd minutes to the surface. the last trip to the surface was between 15 and 16 minutes. i d say closer to 16 minutes. they say it can go about a meter per second. so total running time then a meter is about 3.2 feet. so they re say iing or per minute. they re saying 10 to 12 minutes. once they get this down, they expect it to go a little faster. but they re taking every precaution and making sure that it s a smooth ride, as smooth as it can be.