Video: SpaceX – Crew-3 Mission | Return
Video: SpaceX – Crew-3 Mission | Return
On 5 May at 07:20 CEST, Dragon and the Crew-3 astronauts autonomously undocked from the International Space Station ISS to return to Earth. After performing a series of departure burns to move away from the space station, Dragon conducted multiple orbit-lowering maneuvers, jettison its trunk, and re-entered Earth's atmosphere for splashdown off the coast of Florida approximately 23.5 hours later on 6 May at 00:43 local time (06:43 CEST). Aboard the spacecraft Crew-3 astronauts Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer, who flew to the space station on Dragon when Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft from Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 03:03 CET on 11 November 2021.
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