Four-man Space X Crew Dragon spacecraft wraps up six-month stay in orbit
CBSN
Two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut undocked from the International Space Station Sunday and headed for an overnight splashdown off Florida's East Coast early Monday to wrap up a six-month stay in orbit.
Strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon "Endeavour" spacecraft, Crew-6 commander Stephen Bowen, pilot Woody Hoburg, cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and UAE crewmate Sultan Alneyadi undocked from the station's forward Harmony module at 7:05 a.m. ET to kick off a 17-hour flight back to Earth.
"Before we get busy, we just want to say wow!" mission control radioed a few minutes before undocking. "Can you believe it's already time to leave? We can't. ... You've done an incredible job, and to say it's been a pleasure to support you guys in this mission would be an understatement."
