NASA will supply are living protection of the company’s SpaceX Group-7 go back to Earth from the Global House Station, starting with a change-of-command rite at 11:55 a.m. EDT on Sunday, March 10.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (Ecu House Company) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov are getting ready to wrap up their just about six-month science undertaking, and convey house time-sensitive analysis to Earth.
Pending climate stipulations off the coast of Florida, the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the gap station at 11:05 a.m. Monday, March 11, to start out the adventure house, with NASA protection starting at 10:45 a.m. NASA and SpaceX are concentrated on as early as 5:35 a.m. Tuesday, March 12, for splashdown off the Florida coast.
The go back and similar actions will air survive NASA+, NASA Tv, the NASA app, and the company’s web page. Learn to movement NASA TV thru quite a few platforms together with social media.
NASA’s protection is as follows (all instances Japanese and topic to switch in line with real-time operations):
Sunday, March 10
11:55 a.m.: Group-7 farewell remarks and alter of command rite aboard the gap station
Monday, March 11
9 a.m.: Hatch closure protection starts
9:15 a.m.: Hatch ultimate
10:45 a.m.: Undocking protection starts
11:05 a.m.: Undocking
Following conclusion of Dragon departure from station, NASA protection will proceed with audio handiest, with complete protection resuming forward of the deorbit burn and splashdown.
Tuesday, March 12
4:30 a.m.: Protection starts because the spacecraft leaves low Earth orbit, completes re-entry, and prepares for splashdown
5:35 a.m.: Splashdown
7 a.m.: Go back to Earth media teleconference name with the next members:
Steve Stich, supervisor, NASA’s Industrial Group Program
Jeff Arend, supervisor for programs engineering and integration, NASA’s Global House Station Place of work
SpaceX consultant
Eric Van Der Wal, Houston place of job staff chief, ESA
Hiroshi Sasaki, vp for human house flight and house exploration, JAXA
Media would possibly ask questions by way of telephone. For the dial-in quantity and passcode, media will have to touch the Kennedy newsroom no later than 6 a.m. Tuesday, March 11, at ksc-newsroom@mail.nasa.gov.
See complete undertaking protection, NASA’s business staff weblog, and extra details about the undertaking at:
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Joshua Finch
Headquarters, Washington
202-358-1100
joshua.a.finch@nasa.gov
Steve Siceloff
Kennedy House Middle, Fla.
321-867-2468
steven.p.sieceloff@nasa.gov
Leah Cheshier
Johnson House Middle, Houston
281-483-5111
leah.d.cheshier@nasa.gov
