Astronauts leave ISS, begin return to Earth on SpaceX craft
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Four astronauts spent more than 160 days in space and their Crew Dragon spacecraft is expected to splash back to Earth on Sunday.
Four astronauts have left the International Space Station on board a SpaceX vessel, after more than 160 days in space which will culminate in a splash landing off the Florida coast. The Crew Dragon capsule undocked from the ISS as scheduled at 8:35pm on Saturday (00:35 Sunday GMT). With the flight back to Earth expected to take six and a half hours, the crew was scheduled to splash down in the dark of night early on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico, just off Panama City, Florida.More Related News