Watch live coverage of NASA's SpaceX Crew-8 return to Earth with a splash
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24 October 2024
Tune in to watch the four astronauts touch down off the coast of Florida after a seven month research mission aboard the International Space Station
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Commander Matthew Dominick, a keen astrophotographer, pilot Michael Barratt, and mission specialists Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin
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After over seven months at the International Space Station (ISS), the NASA SpaceX Crew-8 will come back down to Earth tomorrow, 25 October 2024, and you can watch the "splashdown" live through NASA’s website.
Commander Matthew Dominick, a keen astrophotographer, pilot Michael Barratt, and mission specialists Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin launched in to space on 04 March, and have spent the last seven months conducting scientific research from their orbiting laboratory, and will return with important and time-sensitive information.
They undocked from the ISS yesterday (23 October) and boarded the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, and, weather permitting, are scheduled to “splashdown” at one of the multiple zones available off the coast of Florida tomorrow at approximately 3:29 am EDT.
NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps extracts DNA for the Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistance in Space experiment on board the International Space Station
(Image credit: NASA)
Among the many milestones achieved by the astronauts while aboard the ISS was furthering the research for the Genomic Enumeration of Antibiotic Resistant in Space experiment, which surveys the station for antibiotic-resistant organisms and sequences their DNA to examine adaptations in space.
Another fascinating experiment the astronauts have been undertaking is bioprinting tissue samples, which are higher quality when printed in microgravity than on the ground.
Dominick has spent some of his time aboard the ISS processing tissue samples for the Redwire Cardiac Bioprinting Investigation, and results could advance the production of organs and tissues for transplant and improve 3D printing of foods and medicines on future long-duration space missions.
(Image credit: NASA)
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