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The SpaceX Crew-6 Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts aboard undocked from the International Space Station. And headed back to Earth for a Monday splashdown.

The spacecraft is carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, along with UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. It undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station (ISS) known as the Harmony Module at 7:05 a.m. EDT Sunday.

Their 6-month science mission was successfully completed.

NASA coverage of Crew-6’s return will continue with audio until full coverage resumes at the start of the splashdown. Real-time audio between Crew-6 and flight controllers at NASA’s Mission Audio stream will remain available and includes conversations with astronauts aboard the space station and a live video feed from the orbiting laboratory.

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SpaceX Crew-6 Dragon coverage on NASA TV

NASA TV Live coverage will resume at 11 p.m. Sunday until Endeavour splashes down at approximately 12:17 a.m. EDT Monday, Sept. 4, near Jacksonville off the coast of Florida and Crew-6 members are recovered.

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission launched March 2, 2023, on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the space station the next day.

NASA announced that the Dragon spacecraft Endeavor with the Crew-6 astronauts is scheduled to come down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida at 12:07 a.m. EDT on Monday.

It was initially scheduled to depart on Saturday but that was delayed due to Hurricane Idalia.

The hurricane wrought widespread damage throughout parts of the state. And NASA is still concerned with debris in the ocean.

The Crew-6 astronauts were initially scheduled to depart on Saturday but that was delayed due to the aftermath of Idalia in a 24-hour weather delay.

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On Friday, NASA mission controllers determined the Endeavour spacecraft had “normal performance” system-wide, after being docked to the ISS for 6-months. It was cleared for the planned departure and re-entry.

Operations teams found no constraints to flight and following the weather delay the undocking proceeded without any problems.

NASA TV will cover the splashdown with a livestream beginning at 11 p.m. EDT on Sunday and continue until the Crew-6 members are recovered.