After six months in orbit, the four members of NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission—NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov—are heading home. Crew-7 is scheduled to splash down off the coast of Florida at approximately 5:50 a.m. EDT (0950 UTC) on Tuesday, March 12, after undocking from the International Space Station on Monday, March 11. While aboard the orbiting laboratory, Crew-7 contributed to a number of studies to help us learn how to live in space while making
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Dragon’s four main parachutes have deployed pic.twitter.com/CACzHRxWBv
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 12, 2024
Dragon readying for splashdown pic.twitter.com/A1cqdiKEFc
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 12, 2024
Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth, @AstroJaws, @Astro_Andreas, @Astro_Satoshi, and Kostya! pic.twitter.com/iugZ6Awwvn
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 12, 2024
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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 Re-entry and Splashdown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PJAUetG6C2E
