Today, a crew of four astronauts departed from the International Space Station (ISS) and is traveling back to Earth, due to a splashdown in the ocean later tonight. The Crew-5 astronauts spent almost six months living in space, and now they will return to the mainland.
If you’d like to watch from home, we’ve got the details on how to watch NASA’s official live stream of the event below.
What to expect from splashdown
The four crew members traveling home from the ISS are NASA’s Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, Koichi Wakata of the Japanese space agency JAXA and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos. They have been on the station since October last year when their launch from the Kennedy Space Center included the first time a Russian traveled in an American space capsule.
The spacecraft they are traveling home in is a SpaceX Crew Dragon that has been named Endurance, and it autonomously undocked from the station this morning. It now travels back through Earth’s atmosphere before landing on a landing zone in the ocean. There are seven possible landing zones, located in the Atlantic Ocean or the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. After landing, the crew will be recovered and returned to the mainland together with the research results of the scientific experiments carried out on the station.
How to watch the splashdown
The splashdown will be broadcast live by NASA on its NASA TV channel. You can watch it online using the embedded video near the top of this page or by heading over to NASA TV’s YouTube page.
Splashdown coverage begins Saturday, March 11 at 8 pm ET (5 pm PT). pm Eastern Time (6 pm Pacific Time).
Then, at 10:30 p.m. ET (7:30 p.m. PT), NASA will hold a conference to discuss a return to Earth with representatives from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, SpaceX, and the Japanese space agency JAXA.
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