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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) has released a schedule for crew -9 returns. According to the statement of the US Space Agency, the preparation of SpaceX Dragon Hatch Closure will begin on Tuesday, March 18 at 8:15 am (ET on March 17 at 10:45 pm).
The schedule comes after coming to the International Space Station (ISS) on Sunday of Spacex’s crew -10 astronaut mission. Crew-10 rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 spacecraft with four astronauts from three different countries on a 28-hour orbal chase on 14 March. Americans Anne McClane and Nicole Aarns, Japan’s Takua Onici, and Russian Cosmonott Kiril Peskov flew from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 7:03 pm in Florida.
NASA reported that the mission managers are targeting the earlier crew -9 returns, which cite favorable conditions. NASA said in its press release on 16 March, “NASA and SpaceX met on Sunday to assess the weather and splashadown conditions from the coast of Florida for the return of the crew -9 mission of the agency from the International Space Station on Sunday.
The release said, “Mission managers are targeting an earlier crew -9 returns opportunities based on favorable conditions for the evening of March 18, on Tuesday, March 18.” Following the two -day handover period between crew -10 and crew -9, NASA astronauts, including Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmor and other crew members, will depart for the Earth, NASA astronauts Nick Heg and Russian Cosmonott Alexandr Gorbunov.
Sunita Williams Return Schedule
Tuesday, March 18
8:15 AM IST – Hatch closing process will be streamed live by NASA
10:15 AM IST-Preparation Preparation Kick-off
10:30 AM – ignored
In particular, the splashdown of the spacecraft is scheduled for around 3:37 AM, Wednesday, March 19 (5:57 PM EDT, 18 March).
2:41 AM – Deorbit Burn (Time is estimated)
3:37 AM – Splashdown (time is estimated)
NASA will stream the entire return process from hatch closing to splashadown on its official website https://www.nasa.gov/commercalcrew.
In particular, trapped astronaut Sunita Williams and Buch Wilmor, who arrived on a 10-day mission for ISS on 5 June, Boeing Starlineer, staying on ISS for about nine months, while Heg and Gorbunov arrived in ISS in September in September.
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