WASHINGTON, March 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — NASA will present dwell 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 getting ready to wrap up their practically six-month science mission, and produce house time-sensitive analysis to Earth.
Pending climate circumstances off the coast of Florida, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the house 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 concentrating on as early as 5:35 a.m. Tuesday, March 12, for splashdown off the Florida coast.
The return and associated actions will air dwell on NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the company’s web site. Discover ways to stream NASA TV by way of a wide range of platforms together with social media.
NASA’s protection is as follows (all occasions Japanese and topic to alter based mostly on real-time operations):
Sunday, March 10
11:55 a.m.: Crew-7 farewell remarks and alter of command ceremony aboard the house 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 members:
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Steve Stich, supervisor, NASA’s Business Crew Program
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Jeff Arend, supervisor for programs engineering and integration, NASA’s Worldwide Area Station Workplace
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SpaceX consultant
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Eric Van Der Wal, Houston workplace crew chief, ESA
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Hiroshi Sasaki, vice chairman for human house flight and house exploration, JAXA
Media could ask questions by way of cellphone. 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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