First all-civilian crew to orbit heads home after historic three-day flight
CBSN
The Inspiration4 crew members wrapped up their third and final day in orbit Saturday and set their sights on an automated plunge back to Earth, a steep descent to an evening splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean near Cape Canaveral to wrap up a history-making flight.
If all goes well, the SpaceX Crew Dragon's flight computer will fire the ship's Draco braking rockets at 6:16 p.m. EDT, slowing the capsule enough to lower the far side of the orbit into the atmosphere for a southwest-to-northeast descent across Central America and the Florida peninsula.
Heralded by sonic booms, the capsule is expected to splash down under four large parachutes at 7:06 p.m. EDT about 30 miles northeast of the crew's Kennedy Space Center launch site, closing out the first all-civilian privately-funded flight to orbit in space history.
