Watch SpaceX Crew-8 astronauts undock from ISS today after weather delays
- by Space on MSN.com
- Oct 23, 2024
- 0 Comments
- 0 Likes Flag 0 Of 5
When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.
NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick captured this view of Hurricane Milton from SpaceX's Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour, which is docked to the International Space Station, on Oct. 8, 2024.
(Image credit: NASA/Matthew Dominick)
SpaceX's Crew-8 quartet of astronauts will at last depart the space station today following more than two weeks of weather-related delays.
The Dragon spacecraft for SpaceX Crew-8, called Endeavour, is set to undock from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday (Oct. 23) at 5:05 p.m. EDT (2105 GMT). You can watch the event live via the NASA+ streaming service, formerly NASA Television, assuming the agency makes its webcasts available. SpaceX will also stream the undocking via X (formerly Twitter).
Crew-8 is expected to splashdown off the coast of Florida around 3:30 a.m. on Friday (Oct. 25). NASA will also livestream the splashdown on NASA+. A post-splashdown news conference is planned for later that morning.
Members of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission: (from right to left) NASA astronauts Jeanette Epps, mission specialist; Matthew Dominick, commander; Michael Barratt, pilot; and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
(Image credit: NASA)
Undocking has been delayed since Oct. 7 due to poor conditions in the splashdown area during and in the wake of Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida Oct. 9 and caused a temporary closure of NASA's Kennedy Space Center to all but essential personnel.
The Crew-8 astronauts include NASA's Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin of Russia's space agency Roscosmos. The astronauts launched on board a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket March 3 and docked with the ISS on March 5.
Crew-8 is the eighth long-duration NASA/Roscosmos astronaut mission SpaceX has launched to the ISS. The mission's relief crew, Crew-9, arrived at the orbiting complex on Sept. 29 with NASA's Nick Hague and Roscosmos' Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Please first to comment
Related Post
Stay Connected
Tweets by elonmuskTo get the latest tweets please make sure you are logged in on X on this browser.
Sponsored
Popular Post
Tesla: Buy This Dip, Energy Growth And Margin Recovery Are Vastly Underappreciated
28 ViewsJul 29 ,2024