After a two-month-long mission to the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are headed home.
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley are headed back to Earth after a two-month mission at the International Space Station, marking the first time a privately owned craft will return astronauts from the space station to Earth.
Two sets of hooks were disconnected, and then the capsule started to float slowly away from the space station around 7:35 p.m. Eastern time. Several engine thrusters fired to further separate the spacecraft from the space station. The last major test for the capsule will come Sunday, when it is set to splash down at 2:41 p.m. Eastern time in the Gulf of Mexico, near Pensacola, Fla.
The splash-down will mark the first time in 45 years that astronauts have returned to space via an ocean landing.The last such landing came in July 1975, when an Apollo capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean during theSince then, spacecraft have made landings on terra firma — the space shuttle landed on a runway, and the Russian Soyuz capsule lands in Kazakhstan.
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