NASA's Space to Ground: Wrapping Up | Week of March 10, 2023
NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. Four Expedition 68 crew members are nearing the end of their stay aboard the International Space Station this weekend. Their replacements are completing their first week aboard the orbital outpost and getting up to speed with life in space.
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endurance with four crewmates is targeted to depart the space station at 2:05 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 11, 2023, and return to Earth less than 24 hours later. NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada will command and pilot Endurance respectively flanked by Koichi Wakata of JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) and Anna Kikina of Roscosmos (Russia). The foursome is due to splashdown off the coast of Florida at 9:19 p.m. on Saturday.
The quartet blasted off toward the orbiting lab as the SpaceX Crew-5 mission on Oct. 5, 2022, and docked to the Harmony module’s forward port on Oct. 6. A variety of crew ships and space freighters arrived and departed, numerous spacewalks were conducted, and a multitude of advanced space research took place during Crew-5’s five-month-long stay in space.
Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)
Duration: 2 minutes, 23 seconds
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