SpaceX capsule departs station with 4 astronauts, heads home

  • Date: 02-May-2021
  • Source: Khaleej Times
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SpaceX capsule departs station with 4 astronauts, heads home

Four astronauts left the International Space Station on Saturday aboard a SpaceX vessel, after more than 160 days in space which will culminate in a splash landing off the Florida coast.

The Crew Dragon capsule undocked from the ISS as scheduled at 8:35 pm (0035 Sunday GMT). With the flight back to Earth expected to take six-and-a-half hours, the crew was scheduled to splash down in the dark of night off Panama City, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:57 am.

“Dragon separation visually confirmed,” a Nasa commentator said after two sets of six hooks tying the capsule to the ISS retracted.