SpaceX, NASA Targeting Monday for Dragon Splashdown Off Coast of Florida, AX-3 Mission Astronauts Return – SpaceCoastDaily.com

Posted: February 5, 2024 at 6:26 am

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BREVARD COUNTY CAPE CANAVERAL, FLORIDA SpaceX, Axiom Space, and NASA are targeting no earlier than Monday, February 5 for Dragon and the Ax-3 astronauts to depart from the International Space Station.

After performing a series of burns to move away from the space station, Dragon will conduct multiple orbit-lowering maneuvers, jettison its trunk, and re-enter Earths atmosphere before splashing down off the coast of Florida.

Aboard the spacecraft will be Ax-3 astronauts Michael Lpez-Alegra and Walter Villadei , Alper Gezeravc , and Marcus Wandt, who flew to the space station on Dragon when Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday, January 18 at 4:49 p.m. ET.

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