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Coverage Set as NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Prepares to Splashdown
[The SpaceX Crew-5 members are seated inside the Dragon Endurance crew ship atop the Falcon 9 rocket before launching to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A in Florida. ](https://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/crew_5_return.jpg)
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The SpaceX Crew-5 members are seated inside the Dragon Endurance crew ship atop the Falcon 9 rocket before launching to the International Space Station from the Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39A in Florida. From left are, Mission Specialist Anna Kikina from Roscosmos; Pilot Josh Cassada and Commander Nicole Mann, both NASA astronauts; and Mission Specialist Koichi Wakata from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA). Credits: NASA
NASA will provide coverage of the agency’s SpaceX [Crew-5](https://blogs.nasa.gov/Crew-5/) mission return to Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with undocking coverage live at 12 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 11. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the space station at 2:05 a.m., to begin the journey home.
The return and related activities will air live on NASA Television, the [NASA app](https://www.nasa.gov/nasaapp), and the agency’s website at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live
The Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance by the agency’s SpaceX Crew-3 astronauts on its maiden voyage, will autonomously undock, depart the space station, and splash down Saturday at one of seven targeted landing zones in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. The spacecraft also will return time-sensitive research to Earth.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 return coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and subject to change based on real-time operations):
Saturday, March 11
12 a.m. – NASA TV hatch closure coverage begins for ingress and 12:15 a.m. hatch closing
1:45 a.m. – NASA TV coverage resumes for 2:05 a.m. undocking
8:15 p.m. – NASA TV splashdown coverage begins
8:25 p.m. – Deorbit burn
9:19 p.m. – Splashdown off the coast of Florida
11 p.m. – Return to Earth media teleconference from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston with:
– Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida
– Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station, NASA Johnson
– Sarah Walker, director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX
– Hiroshi Sasaki, vice president, JAXA
See full mission coverage, NASA’s commercial crew blog, and more information about the mission at:
https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew
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Press Contacts
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Johnson Space Center, Houston
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