Four space station astronauts undock, head home to wrap up 199-day mission
CBSN
Two NASA astronauts and two crewmates from France and Japan strapped into their Crew Dragon spacecraft and undocked from the International Space Station on Monday, setting the stage for a fiery plunge to Earth and splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico to close out a 199-day mission.
Crew-2 commander Shane Kimbrough, Megan McArthur, European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Akihiko Hoshide bid their three station crewmates farewell, floated into the Crew Dragon Endeavour and closed the hatch around 12:12 p.m. EST.
After donning their futuristic SpaceX pressure suits, the crew undocked from the Harmony module's space-facing port at 2:05 p.m. EST, kicking off an eight-and-a-half-hour return to Earth and a splashdown south of Pensacola, Florida, at 10:33 p.m. EST.
