Stranded NASA SpaceX Crew-8 Astronauts Set for Splashdown Within Hours
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- Oct 24, 2024
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After more than two weeks of delays due to Hurricane Milton, SpaceX's Crew-8 is set to splash down off the coast of Florida in the early hours of Friday morning.
The Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Wednesday at 5:05 p.m. ET while zipping 260 miles above the Pacific Ocean.
The splashdown is scheduled for around 3:30 a.m. ET on Friday, and NASA will livestream the whole event on its NASA+ channel.
"After living and working aboard the orbiting laboratory for 235 days, Crew-8 successfully undocked from the space-facing port of the Harmony module of the International Space Station," NASA's Johnson Space Center said in a post on X.
The four SpaceX Crew-8 members are pictured inside the SpaceX Dragon vessel "Endeavour" shortly after the hatch opened on the forward port of the International Space Station's Harmony module. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut...
The four SpaceX Crew-8 members are pictured inside the SpaceX Dragon vessel "Endeavour" shortly after the hatch opened on the forward port of the International Space Station's Harmony module. From left are, Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin and NASA astronauts Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Matthew Dominick.
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