NASA will present reside protection of the company’s SpaceX Crew-7 return to Earth from the Worldwide Area Station, starting with a change-of-command ceremony at 11:55 a.m. EDT on Sunday, March 10.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Area Company) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov are making ready to wrap up their almost six-month science mission, and convey house time-sensitive analysis to Earth.
Pending climate circumstances off the coast of Florida, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the area station at 11:05 a.m. Monday, March 11, to start the journey house, with NASA protection starting at 10:45 a.m. NASA and SpaceX are focusing on as early as 5:35 a.m. Tuesday, March 12, for splashdown off the Florida coast.
The return and associated actions will air reside on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the company’s web site. Learn to stream NASA TV by means of quite a lot of platforms together with social media.
NASA’s protection is as follows (all occasions Japanese and topic to vary primarily based on real-time operations):
Sunday, March 10
11:55 a.m.: Crew-7 farewell remarks and alter of command ceremony aboard the area station
Monday, March 11
9 a.m.: Hatch closure protection begins
9:15 a.m.: Hatch closing
10:45 a.m.: Undocking protection begins
11:05 a.m.: Undocking
Following conclusion of Dragon departure from station, NASA protection will proceed with audio solely, with full protection resuming forward of the deorbit burn and splashdown.
Tuesday, March 12
4:30 a.m.: Protection begins because the spacecraft leaves low Earth orbit, completes re-entry, and prepares for splashdown
5:35 a.m.: Splashdown
7 a.m.: Return to Earth media teleconference name with the next contributors:
Steve Stich, supervisor, NASA’s Industrial Crew Program
Jeff Arend, supervisor for methods engineering and integration, NASA’s Worldwide Area Station Workplace
SpaceX consultant
Eric Van Der Wal, Houston workplace staff chief, ESA
Hiroshi Sasaki, vp for human area flight and area exploration, JAXA
Media could ask questions by way of telephone. For the dial-in quantity and passcode, media ought to contact the Kennedy newsroom no later than 6 a.m. Tuesday, March 11, at ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
See full mission protection, NASA’s industrial crew weblog, and extra details about the mission at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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Joshua FinchHeadquarters, Washington202-358-1100joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov
Steve SiceloffKennedy Area Middle, Fla.321-867-2468steven.p.sieceloff@nasa.gov
Leah CheshierJohnson Area Middle, Houston281-483-5111leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov