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The members of SpaceX's Crew-7, seen present preparing to depart for nan International Space Station successful August, are connected their measurement backmost to Earth arsenic a SpaceX Falcon spacecraft undocked from nan abstraction position Monday. File Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo
March 11 (UPI) -- Members of SpaceX's Crew-7 person undocked from nan International Space Station and are making their measurement backmost to Earth connected Monday.
SpaceX confirmed nan Dragon spacecraft separated from nan ISS astatine 11:20 a.m. EDT.
"The spacecraft will now execute a bid of departure burns to move distant from nan [ISS]," SpaceX said. "Dragon will re-enter nan Earth's ambiance and scatter down nan seashore of Florida successful [about] 19 hours."
Returning from nan ISS will beryllium NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, nan European Space Agency's Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. They person been connected nan ISS since Aug. 26.
The Dragon spacecraft is expected to complete re-entry into Earth's ambiance astatine 4:30 a.m. EDT Tuesday earlier splashing down astatine 5:35 a.m.
During their clip connected nan ISS, Crew-7 carried retired a range of technological experiments, exertion demonstrations, investigation and attraction tasks.
Members of Crew-8 arrived astatine nan ISS past week to return complete nan tasks successful a infinitesimal Mogensen called "bittersweet."
Crew-8 includes NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, arsenic good arsenic Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a Dragon capsule pinch Crew-8 aboard to nan International Space Station from Launch Complex 39A astatine Kennedy Space Center successful Florida connected March 3, 2024. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo
