Dragon Departs Station for Splashdown Off the Coast of Florida – Area Station

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, together with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev  inside undocked from the forward-facing port of the Worldwide Area Station’s Concord module at 7:05 a.m. EDT to finish a  six-month science mission.

NASA protection of Crew-6’s return will proceed with audio solely, and full protection will resume initially of the splashdown broadcast. Actual-time audio between Crew-6 and flight controllers at NASA’s Mission Audio stream will stay obtainable and contains conversations with astronauts aboard the house station and a dwell video feed from the orbiting laboratory.

NASA TV protection will resume at 11 p.m. Sunday till Endeavour splashes down at roughly 12:17 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 4, close to Jacksonville off the coast of Florida and Crew-6 members are recovered.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launched March 2, 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the company’s Kennedy Area Middle in Florida and docked to the house station the following day.

Extra particulars in regards to the mission and NASA’s business crew program might be discovered by following the business crew weblog, @commercial_crew and commercial crew on Facebook.

Study extra about station actions by following the house station weblog, @space_station and @ISS_Research on X, in addition to the ISS Facebook and ISS Instagram accounts.

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