KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – After becoming the first long-duration mission to arrive at the International Space Station via a private company’s spacecraft, four astronauts plan to depart the orbiting laboratory Wednesday and splashdown in the Crew Dragon capsule hours later.
SpaceX Crew-1 mission astronauts including Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, all of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency have been on station since they launched from Florida in November on the Crew Dragon capsule called Resilience.
Following the arrival of another team of Dragon riders, known as the Crew-2 mission, the astronauts are set to undock from the ISS Wednesday beginning at 7:05 a.m.