The members of SpaceX’s Crew-7, seen here preparing to depart for the International Space Station, are set to begin their return to Earth as a SpaceX Falcon spacecraft undocks form the space station Monday. File Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo
March 11 (UPI) — Members of SpaceX’s Crew-7 are undocked from the International Space Station and begin their way back to Earth on Monday.
SpaceX confirmed the Dragon spacecraft separated from the space station at 11:20 a.m. EDT.
“The spacecraft will now execute a series of departure burns to move away from the [ISS],” SpaceX said. “Dragon will re-enter the Earth’s atmosphere and splash down the coast of Florida in [about] 19 hours.”
Returning from the ISS will be NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, the European Space Agency’s Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. They have been on the ISS since Aug. 26, 2023.
The Dragon spacecraft is expected to complete re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere at 4:30 a.m. on Tuesday before splashing down at 5:35 a.m.
During their time on the ISS Crew-7 carried out a range of scientific experiments, technology demonstrations, research and maintenance tasks.
Members of Crew-8 arrived at the ISS last week to take over the tasks in a moment Mogensen called “bittersweet.”
Crew-8 includes NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps as well as Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
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