The Dragon spacecraft for SpaceX Crew-8, called Endeavour, undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) today at 5:05 p.m. EDT (2105 GMT), as the two spacecraft were flying 260 miles (418 kilometers) above the Pacific Ocean.
Crew-8 is expected to splash down off the coast of Florida around 3:30 a.m. EDT (0730 GMT) on Friday (Oct. 25). NASA will livestream the splashdown on NASA+. A post-splashdown news conference is planned for later that morning.
Undocking had been delayed since Oct. 7 due to poor conditions in the splashdown area during and in the wake of Hurricane Milton, which hit Florida Oct. 9 and caused a temporary closure of NASA's Kennedy Space Center to all but essential personnel.
The Crew-8 astronauts include NASA's Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps and Alexander Grebenkin of Russia's space agency Roscosmos. The astronauts launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 3 and docked with the ISS on March 5.
Crew-8 is the eighth long-duration NASA/Roscosmos astronaut mission SpaceX has launched to the ISS. The mission's relief crew, Crew-9, arrived at the orbiting complex on Sept. 29 with NASA's Nick Hague and Roscosmos' Aleksandr Gorbunov.
Source: www.space.com
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