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Topic:[Discuss] SpaceX Dragon Crew-5 mission
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Robert PearlmanThe Crew-5 Tesla Model X astronaut transfer vehicles have the custom license plate: "BLA5TOFF".

BlackarrowIt's always a thrill to watch a crew launch live on TV. Today I saw something that I don't think I have ever seen before during a launch: just as the commentator announced that Falcon 9 was reducing thrust approaching Max Q, I clearly saw the exhaust reducing in intensity. This may have been noticeable on previous launches, but I didn't spot it.
Robert PearlmanSpaceX video
Dragon will autonomously dock with the space station on Thursday, October 6, at approximately 4:57 p.m. ET, 20:57 UTC.
domDid everyone miss this, or is it kind of unimportant nowadays?
Nicole Mann has become the first Native American woman in space as she lifted off in command of a flight to the International Space Station...
Robert PearlmanDid you miss the first few words of our own launch article here?
The first Native American woman to fly in space...
domApologies Robert. In the words of that great fictional astronaut Homer Simpson - D’oh!
Robert PearlmanNASA and SpaceX teams are monitoring closely the weather for the return of Crew-5 from the International Space Station, currently targeted for no earlier than Thursday morning (March 9).
Robert PearlmanNASA and SpaceX continue to evaluate the weather for the return of Crew-5. Teams conducted a weather briefing overnight and decided to waive off the initial undocking opportunity for early Thursday, March 9, due to high winds at the splashdown sites.

Teams are currently targeting undocking for no earlier than Thursday evening, pending weather.

Robert PearlmanNASA video
NASA astronauts Frank Rubio, Nicole Mann, Josh Cassada, Stephen Bowen, and Woody Hoburg, as well as JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Koichi Wakata, UAE (United Arab Emirates) astronaut Sultan Alneyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonauts Andrey Fedyaev, Sergey Prokopyev, Dimitri Petelin, and Anna Kikina gave remarks on March 8 aboard the International Space Station in anticipation of the upcoming departure of the Crew-5 mission.
Robert PearlmanNASA and SpaceX are targeting Saturday (March 11) at 9:19 p.m. EST (0219 GMT March 12) for the Crew-5 splashdown at one of seven targeted landing zones in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.

SpaceX's Dragon Endurance is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station on Saturday at 2:05 a.m. EST (0705 GMT), beginning Crew-5's journey home.

Robert PearlmanSpaceX video
SpaceX and NASA are targeting Saturday, March 11 at 2:20 a.m. EDT (0720 GMT) for Dragon to autonomously undock from the International Space Station (ISS).

After performing a series of departure burns to move away from the space station, Dragon will conduct multiple orbit-lowering maneuvers, jettison the trunk and re-enter Earth's atmosphere for splashdown off the coast of Tampa, Florida approximately 19 hours later at 9:02 p.m. EDT (0202 GMT March 12).

Robert PearlmanSpaceX video
Splashdown off the coast of Tampa, Florida is expected on Saturday (March 11) at 9:02 p.m. EDT (0202 GMT March 12).
Robert PearlmanKoichi Wakata is now the first Japanese astronaut to reach 500 days in space (spread over five missions).

Anna Kikina is the first Russian cosmonaut to purposely splash down from space. (Soyuz 23 splashed down inadvertently in a Kazakh lake.)

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