(AGENPARL) – sab 02 settembre 2023 September 02, 2023 
MEDIA ADVISORY M23-109
*Coverage Set as NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 Prepares for Splashdown *
Four Expedition 69 flight engineers aboard the International Space Station
pose for a portrait in the pressure suits they will wear when they relocate
the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour crew ship from the Harmony module’s space-facing
port to Harmony’s forward port on Saturday May 6, 2023.
*/Credits: NASA/*
NASA will provide coverage of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission return to
Earth from the International Space Station, beginning with hatch closure
coverage live at 5 a.m. EDT on Sunday, Sept. 3. The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft
is scheduled to undock from the space station no earlier than 7:05 a.m., to
begin the journey home.
The return and related activities will stream live on NASA Television, the
NASA app [1], and the agency’s website at:
https://www.nasa.gov/live [2]
NASA and SpaceX are targeting 12:17 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 4, for a splashdown
[3] that will wrap up a nearly six-month science mission for NASA astronauts
Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan
Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev.
Following the conclusion of Dragon’s departure from the station, NASA
coverage of Crew-6’s return will continue audio only, and full coverage on
NASA TV will resume at the start of the splashdown broadcast. Real-time audio
between Crew-6 and flight controllers on NASA’s Mission Audio [4] stream
will remain available. 
The Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, will undock, depart the space
station, and return important and time-sensitive research to Earth. The
spacecraft will splash down at one of seven targeted landing zones in the
Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 return coverage is as follows (all times Eastern and
subject to change due to weather and station operations):
*Sunday, Sept. 3*
5 a.m. – Hatch closure coverage begins for 5:20 a.m. hatch closing
6:45 a.m. – Undocking coverage begins for 7:05 a.m. undocking
11 p.m. – Coverage begins for deorbit burn, entry, and splashdown off the
coast of Florida
*Monday, Sept. 4*
12:17 a.m. – Splashdown
2 a.m. – Return to Earth media teleconference from NASA’s Kennedy Space
Center in Florida with the following participants:
* Steve Stich, manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA Kennedy
* Joel Montalbano, manager, International Space Station, NASA’s Johnson
Space Center in Houston
* Benji Reed, senior director, Human Spaceflight Programs, SpaceX
* Adnan Alrais, assistant director general space operations and exploration
sector, Mission Manager, UAE Astronaut Programme
To participate, media must RSVP by 1 a.m., Sept. 4, to the NASA Kennedy
See full mission coverage, NASA’s commercial crew blog, and more information
about the mission at:
*https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew* [6]
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Headquarters, Washington
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Steve Siceloff
Kennedy Space Center, Fla.
321-867-2468
Leah Cheshier
Johnson Space Center, Houston
281-483-5111
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[1] https://www.nasa.gov/nasaapp
[2] https://www.nasa.gov/live
[3] https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-spacex-crew-rescue-and-recovery/
[6] https://www.nasa.gov/commercialcrew