By NASA March 11, 2024The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft, with 4 Crew-7 crew members aboard, approaches the spaceport station for a docking on Sunday, August 27, 2023. Credit: NASA TVThe SpaceX Dragon spacecraft with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov inside undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Stations Harmony module at 11:20 a.m. EDT to complete an almost six-month science mission.NASA coverage of Crew-7s return will continue with audio only, and complete protection will resume at the start of the splashdown broadcast. Real-time audio in between Crew-7 and flight controllers at NASAs Mission Audio stream will remain readily available and consists of conversations with astronauts aboard the spaceport station and a live video feed from the orbiting laboratory.NASA TV protection will resume at 4:30 a.m. Tuesday until Dragon splashes down at around 5:50 a.m. on Tuesday, March 12, off the coast of Florida and Crew-7 members are recovered.NASAs SpaceX Crew-7 mission released August 26, 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the firms Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
