Dragon Departs Station for Splashdown Off the Coast of Florida

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The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev  inside undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station?s Harmony module at 7:05 a.m. EDT to complete a  six-month science mission. NASA coverage of Crew-6?s return will continue with audio only, and full coverage will resume at the start of the splashdown broadcast. Real-time audio between Crew-6 and flight controllers at NASA?s Mission Audio stream will remain available and includes conversations with astronauts aboard the space station and a live video feed from the orbiting laboratory. NASA TV coverage will resume at 11 p.m. Sunday until Endeavour splashes down at approximately 12:07 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 4, near Tampa 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 agency?s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the space station the next day.

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Published: 2023-09-03 15:27

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