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May 2, 2021 by archyde
The Crew Dragon capsule detached from the ISS at the scheduled 8:35 p.m. Saturday on the US east coast.
Thank you for your hospitality (…) we will meet again on Earth, launched Michael Hopkins, one of the four astronauts, to those who remained on board the Station.
The flight back to Earth is expected to take approximately 6.5 hours.
The four astronauts are scheduled to land at 2:57 a.m. on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico. The planned landing site is located off Panama City, Florida, but other alternative sites have been designated as needed.
We trained to pick up the crews day and night, reassured Steve Stich, manager of the commercial flights program of NASA, questioned shortly before the departure of the capsule.
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The four astronauts spent more than 160 days in space and the Crew Dragon spacecraft is expected to return to Earth on Sunday.
Four astronauts have left the International Space Station in a SpaceX spacecraft, after more than 160 days in space, to land with a ship off the coast of Florida.
The Crew Dragon capsule left the ISS on Saturday at 20:35 as scheduled (00:35 Sunday GMT).
The return flight would take six and a half hours, and the crew would have to splash out on a dark night early Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico, Panama City, Florida.
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A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts to Earth descended from the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday morning.
The spacecraft recovered the spacecraft and crew at the International Space Station (ISS) after a six-month mission. The crew reported that they were feeling well, NASA said.
The capsule splashed at 2:56 (06:56 GMT) in the dark Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast after a six-and-a-half-hour flight from the ISS, images emitted by NASA’s WB-57 high. he showed aircraft to investigate altitude.
It was the first splash of darkness in the U.S. in 1968 when Apollo 8 crew returned from the moon.