NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Deorbit Burn & Splashdown | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 Deorbit Burn & Splashdown | International Space Station

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft completed its deorbit ahead of splashdown at 9:02 p.m. EST, March 11, 2023, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida.

Four minutes before splashdown, the drogue parachutes deployed at 18,000 feet in altitude while Dragon was moving approximately 350 miles per hour, and less than a minute later, the main parachutes deployed at about 6,000 feet in altitude while the spacecraft was moving approximately 119 miles per hour. 

Support teams arrived via helicopter to the SpaceX recovery ship Shannon to prepare for the landing of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft.

The SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft is seen as it lands with NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina (Russia) onboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida, Saturday, March 11, 2023. Mann, Cassada, Wakata, and Kikina are returning after 157 days in space as part of Expedition 68 aboard the International Space Station.

Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

Image Date: March 11, 2023

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