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SpaceX’s Crew-10 astronauts will return to Earth in the present day (Aug. 9) after residing on the International Space Station for practically 5 months, and you’ll watch the motion dwell.
The mission’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endurance, is scheduled to splash down within the Pacific Ocean off the California coast in the present day at 11:33 a.m. EDT (1533 GMT; 8:33 a.m. native California time).
You can watch the homecoming dwell right here at Space.com, courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency. Coverage will start at 10:15 a.m. EDT (1415 GMT).
As its title suggests, Crew-10 is the tenth operational astronaut mission that SpaceX has flown to and from the International Space Station (ISS) for NASA, through the company’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP).
The crewmembers are Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers of NASA, Takuya Onishi of JAXA (the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Kirill Peskov of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency. McClain commands Crew-10, Ayers is the pilot and Onishi and Peskov are mission specialists.
The flight launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 14 and arrived at the orbiting lab two days later. Crew-10’s four astronauts soon set to conducting science work, which consumed much of their time over the ensuing months.
“During their stay in space, the crew studied space-caused mental and physical changes in astronauts, blood flow from the brain to the heart, future lunar navigation techniques and more,” NASA officials wrote in a blog post on Monday (Aug. 4).
The wheels for Crew-10’s departure started turning final Saturday (Aug. 2), when SpaceX’s four-person Crew-11 mission arrived on the ISS. The Crew-10 astronauts spent a number of days advising their replacements, then set their minds to gearing up for the return to Earth — and reflecting on their orbital expertise.
“We got to accomplish a lot of really amazing operational things,” Ayers mentioned throughout a farewell ceremony on Tuesday (Aug. 5).
“We got to see some amazing views, and we have had some really big belly laughs and a wonderful time together,” she added. “I think that [we’re] leaving with a heart full of gratitude, and [we’re] excited to see where the International Space Station goes after we get home.”
The hatches between Endurance and the ISS closed on Friday (Aug. 8) at 4:20 p.m. EDT (2020 GMT), and the capsule undocked about two hours later, at 6:15 p.m. EDT (2205 GMT). Endurance then started maneuvering its means again to Earth, organising its deliberate splashdown in the present day.
It would be the first Pacific Ocean return for a SpaceX CCP mission; all earlier such flights have come down off the Florida coast. SpaceX not too long ago shifted to West Coast reentries for all of its Dragon missions, each crewed and uncrewed, to attenuate the prospect that falling house particles might injury property or injure folks.
Crew-10 will not be the primary SpaceX astronaut mission of any kind to land within the Pacific, nonetheless; the non-public Fram2 and Axiom 4 flights did so earlier this 12 months.
Crew-10 is the primary spaceflight for Ayers and Peskov and the second for McClain and Onishi. Onishi served as commander of the ISS’ present Expedition 73 from April till this previous Tuesday, when he handed the reins over to cosmonaut Sergey Ryzhikov.
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