4 International Space Station crew members undock, head for Tuesday splashdown in Gulf of Mexico
CBSN
A SpaceX Crew Dragon ferry ship carrying four long-duration crew members undocked from the International Space Station on Monday, setting the stage for re-entry and splashdown early Tuesday to wrap up a 199-day mission.
NASA commander Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japanese flier Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov separated from the upper port of the station's forward Harmony module at 11:20 a.m. EDT as the two spacecraft sailed 265 miles above the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii.
"I'm very sad to be leaving the station, but I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone," Moghbeli, a Marine combat helicopter pilot, said Sunday. "You know, there are a few of us on board, but there's an entire international team on the ground throughout the world that makes this possible.
