Moscow. May 2. INTERFAX.RU – The crew of the American spacecraft Crew Dragon-1, returning to Earth from the International Space Station (ISS), closed the hatch before the upcoming undocking, NASA reported.
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi return to Earth after a six-month stay aboard the ISS.
The ship will undock with the station at 20:35 US East Coast time (03:35 Moscow time).
Approximately six and a half hours after that, the descent capsule of the ship will have to splash down with the help of a parachute system in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.
Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Novitsky and Pyotr Dubrov and NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hai, who arrived at the ISS on April 9 on the Soyuz MS-18 spacecraft, and also NASA astronauts who arrived at the station on April 24, on board the ISS Megan MacArthur and Shane Kimbrough, ESA astronaut Thomas Peske and JAXA astronaut Akihiko Hoshide.
