In the next half hour, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon will undock from the International Space Station (ISS) and start the return of NASA astronauts to Earth.
The live video above shows coverage of the Crew Demo-2 departure, being targeted for 7:34pm EDT on Saturday, August 1, 2020. Crew Dragon will undock itself from the ISS and start its return to Earth, a journey set to last 19 hours to its splash down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida at 2:41 p.m. EDT on Sunday, August 2.
This Demo-2 mission “is the final major milestone for SpaceX’s human spaceflight system to be certified by NASA for operational crew missions to and from the International Space Station,” explains SpaceX.
When this mission is complete and all data has been certified, SpaceX and Crew Dragon will take off for its first six-month mission with Crew-1, set tentatively for late September of this year.
