The astronauts of SpaceX’s Crew-8 mission will return to Earth early Friday morning (Oct. 25), and you may watch their homecoming dwell.
The Dragon capsule Endeavour is scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast on Friday at round 3:30 a.m. EDT (0730 GMT), wrapping up the almost eight-month-long Crew-8 mission to the Worldwide House Station (ISS).
You’ll be able to watch protection of Crew-8’s reentry and splashdown right here at House.com, courtesy of NASA, starting at 2:15 a.m. EDT (0615 GMT). NASA may also livestream a post-splashdown press convention, which is anticipated to start at 5 a.m. EDT (0900 GMT).
Crew-8 launched atop a Falcon 9 rocket on March 4, carrying NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, in addition to Alexander Grebenkin of Russia’s house company Roscosmos, to the ISS.
The quartet had been initially supposed to depart the orbiting lab on Oct. 7, however poor climate within the projected splashdown zone — together with some attributable to Hurricane Milton — delayed their departure a number of instances. Mom Nature lastly relented this week, and Endeavour undocked on Wednesday afternoon (Oct. 23).
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As its title signifies, Crew-8 is the eighth long-duration astronaut mission that SpaceX has flown to the ISS for NASA. The ninth is already on the orbiting lab; Crew-9 arrived on Sept. 29.
That newest mission carried simply two astronauts — NASA’s Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov — as a substitute of the standard 4. NASA took two spaceflyers off Crew-9 to make room for Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who wanted a journey residence from the station.
Williams and Wilmore arrived on the ISS in June on the first-ever crewed flight of Boeing’s Starliner capsule. Their mission, referred to as Crew Flight Take a look at, was imagined to final simply 10 days or so. However Starliner suffered thruster points on its strategy to the ISS, and NASA prolonged the capsule’s orbital keep repeatedly to check the issue.
The company in the end elected to convey Starliner residence uncrewed, which occurred with out incident on Sept. 6. As a part of that call, Williams and Wilmore will return to Earth with Crew-9 in February 2025.
