You may be able to spot @SpaceX's Dragon Endeavour spacecraft in the night sky shortly before #Crew6 splashes down off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida around 12:17am ET (0417 UTC) on Monday, Sept. 4.
Here's where (and when) Endeavour will be most visible. pic.twitter.com/ubud4hVzla
— NASA (@NASA) September 4, 2023
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.
Watch #Crew6 undock from the @Space_Station to begin their return to Earth. https://t.co/Uxvur2arC8
— NASA (@NASA) September 3, 2023
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.
