KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - After several delays due to weather, four private astronauts undocked from the International Space Station Sunday and are en route back to Earth with a planned splashdown off the coast of Florida on Monday. PRESS PLAY ABOVE TO WATCH LIVEKathy Lueders, NASA's Space Operations Mission Directorate, announced Saturday that NASA had shifted the departure to Sunday evening from the International Space Station.
Axiom-1 splashdown courtesy SpaceXMEET THE MEN BEHIND THE ALL-PRIVATE MISSION TO THE ISS"We now are targeting 8:55 p.m. ET Sun., April 24, for [Ax-1] undocking from the Space Station due to high winds at the splashdown site," she said in a tweet.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the ISS just before 9 p.m. Sunday beginning the four private astronauts' journey back to Earth.(SpaceX) The splashdown is estimated to be at 1:06 p.m.
on Monday off the coast of Jacksonville. SpaceX, NASA and Axiom Space team members will be there to recover the spacecraft and help the new astronauts out of their ride.Boaters are asked to stay clear of the landing zone and not approach the spacecraft.