This was the first fully operational mission to the ISS aboard the vehicle made by Elon Musk. FMTNews SpaceX
Livestream footage shows the Crew Dragon capsule undocking from the ISS on Saturday.
The Crew Dragon capsule undocked from the ISS as scheduled 12.35am GMT on Sunday. With the flight back to Earth expected to take six-and-a-half hours, the crew was scheduled to splashdown in the dark of night off Panama City, Florida, in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:57 am. Seven astronauts remained on the ISS including a new crew of four who arrived on a different SpaceX craft last week.
“The ships have lots of lighting,” helped by “good moonlight,” he said, adding that weather conditions were excellent, with calm seas.Astronauts Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi went to space last November as the crew on the first fully operational mission to the ISS aboard a vehicle made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which has become Nasa’s favoured commercial transportation partner.
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