March 11 (UPI) — Members of SpaceX’s Crew-7 have undocked from the International Space Station and are making their way back to Earth on Monday.
SpaceX confirmed the Dragon spacecraft separated from the ISS 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.”
Watch Dragon depart the @Space_Station and return to Earth with Crew-7 aboard → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK https://t.co/W7X1MWnbfm— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 11, 2024
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.
The Dragon spacecraft is expected to complete re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere at 4:30 a.m. EDT 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.
