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Updated: May 2 2021, 0:18 ET Invalid Date, A SPACEX capsule carrying four astronauts departed the International Space Station late Saturday, ending their five-month mission as they prepare to return to Earth in a rare late-night splashdown. It would be the first US splashdown in darkness since Apollo 8′s crew returned from the moon in 1968 - and only the third in history. 6 6 SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts (L-R) Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins and Soichi NoguchiCredit: AFP NASA’s ...

Four astronauts strapped into a Crew Dragon capsule splashed down into the Gulf of Mexico, wrapping up a mission to the International Space Station.

Four astronauts have left the International Space Station on board a SpaceX vessel, after more than 160 days in space which will culminate in a splash landing off the Florida coast. The Crew Dragon capsule undocked from the ISS as scheduled at 8:35pm on Saturday (00:35 Sunday GMT). With the flight back to Earth expected to take six and a half hours, the crew was scheduled to splash down in the dark of night early on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico, just off Panama City, Florida. “Dragon separati...

Four astronauts are preparing to return home from the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, ending their five-month mission to the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts have set a record for the longest time in space by a crew that launched aboard an American-built spacecraft. On Saturday evening, the crew is slated to climb aboard their spacecraft, which has remained fixed to the space stations docking ports since the astronauts arrived in November. Theyll undock from ...

Dragon Resilience returning to Earth to complete first operational Commercial Crew mission May 1, 2021 NASA and SpaceX teams are preparing for the return of NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi to Earth, completing the historic Crew-1 mission. Crew Dragon Resilience is scheduled to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the coast of Panama City, Florida, at 2:56 AM EDT (06:56 UTC) on Sunday...

SpaceX-NASA Crew-1 astronauts returned from ISS -- heres what went down CNN 39 mins ago By Jackie Wattles, CNN Business © Bill Ingalls/NASA NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins is helped out of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft early Sunday A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule soared back from outer space Sunday morning and made a parachute landing in the Gulf of Mexico, returning four astronauts from a record-setting mission to the International Space Station. The astronauts —...

The first six-month rotation of an International Space Station crew to be carried up and returned to Earth by commercial partner SpaceX is set to end in the early morning hours Sunday,

NASAs SpaceX first crew mission on way home from space station 1 2021-05-02 14:26:24Xinhua Editor : Mo Honge ECNS App Download NASAs SpaceX Crew-1 mission undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday and was on its way back to Earth.  The Crew-1 mission, which consists of NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, is scheduled to splash down in the Gulf of M...

2021-05-02 10:05:42 GMT2021-05-02 18:05:42(Beijing Time) Xinhua English WASHINGTON, May 2 (Xinhua) -- The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft carrying four Crew-1 astronauts parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida early Sunday, completing a six-month mission to the International Space Station (ISS). The spacecraft, named Resilience, splashed down at 2:56 a.m. Eastern Time (0656 GMT) Sunday. The Crew-1 mission, which consists of NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover...

Image: NASA/Bill Ingalls 2021-05-02 14:44:01 UTC While most of the U.S. was sleeping on Saturday night into Sunday morning, four astronauts aboard the International Space Station made the journey back home. NASA astronauts Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins, and Shannon Glover, along with Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), boarded their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, dubbed Resilience, at 8:35 p.m. ET on Saturday. Six and a half hours later, all four were safely back on ...