Watch SpaceX bring 4 astronauts back to Earth from the space station. They’re set to splash into the ocean Monday night.

  • Date: 09-Nov-2021
  • Source: Business Insider
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Watch SpaceX bring 4 astronauts back to Earth from the space station. They’re set to splash into the ocean Monday night.

SpaceX is set to complete its on Monday, when will ride the company's Crew Dragon spaceship from the International Space Station (ISS), through Earth's atmosphere, to an ocean splashdown. SpaceX the NASA mission, called Crew-2, to the ISS in April, carrying astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur of NASA, Akihiko Hoshide of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency. They flew on the same Crew Dragon capsule, Endeavour, that carried SpaceX's first crewed test flight to the ISS in 2020. The Crew-2 astronauts have been on the space station for six months, conducting spacewalks, doing maintenance, and running science experiments, including . Now their shift is over and they're once again sealed in the Endeavour spaceship. The capsule undocked from the ISS at 2:05 p.m. ET, firing its thrusters to back away from the station. If everything goes as planned, Endeavour will orbit Earth for about eight hours, lining up with its pre-established landing spot in the Gulf of Mexico. Then Endeavour will fire its thrusters to push itself into a fall back to Earth, plow through the atmosphere, release parachutes, and splash down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 10:33 p.m. ET.