Homebound: NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Hatch Closure | International Space Station

Homebound: NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 Hatch Closure | International Space Station

The hatch of SpaceX’s Crew-5 “Endurance” Dragon spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Nicole Aunapu Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata (Japan) and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina (Russia), was closed on March 11, 2023, at 12:29 a.m. EST. Crew-5 is SpaceX’s fifth operational mission for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP).

The SpaceX Dragon Crew-5 “Endurance” spacecraft then undocked from the forward-facing port of the International Space Station’s Harmony module at 2:20 a.m. EST to complete a nearly  six-month science mission. 

NASA TV coverage will resume at 8 p.m. Saturday, March 11, 2023, until Endurance splashes down at approximately 9:02 p.m. EST near Tampa off the coast of Florida and Crew-5 members are recovered.  

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission launched Oct. 5, 2022, on a Falcon 9 rocket from the agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida and docked to the space station the next day. 

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)/Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX)

Duration: 5 minutes

Release Date: March 11, 2023

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