SpaceX Crew-1's return to Earth - See the highlights

and on the screen there is a view from the international space station he is dressing suici, he and Shannon Walker will go ahead and dress outside and that is Aki Hoshide next to him, that is the command of the new commander of the space station that was given to him transferred from Shannon Walker. who will also be leaving today and Walker will probably have already put on the suit by now, so while we wait we can see many astronauts continuing to help Soichi. It looks like they are taking pictures. You will notice that many photographs are taken throughout this process. many of them are sent to the ground to help inspect the seals or possible fog that may be in the hatches, but it looks like it's going up to the zenith port and, uh, in that space where another astronaut is heading right now, that's where it is. where the dragon capsule that is leaving today is currently parked and that is suici going through the apas hatch and the lobby towards the dragon.

We also have some cargo storage right there. I'd love to take those final photos with your

crew

members in space next time everyone sees you. each other is when those

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members also

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to Earth, so I think it probably might be a little difficult to leave your friends after spending almost six months on board with them and there's NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough, who The crew just arrived a week ago. 2 mission, he is helping them complete their checks before hash closure and undocking today and also part of the ii crew the astronaut takes fish with his hand on the blue rail.

He will also come in to see if he can help. Pesquet also arrived one week. He does and was the first European Space Agency astronaut to fly aboard the Dragon crew Mike Hopkins and Victor Guanter. You can see the inside of the capsule getting our first look of the day inside the dragon crew resilience victor glounter there at the top of the screen he and hopkins will be suiting up shortly looks like they might be getting some final photos the hands you see closer on your screen are astronaut Shannon Walker again the mission specialists will put on their suits before entering Commander Mike Hopkins and pilot Victor Glover will put on their suits after the hatch closes and it looks like they were just doing that by closing the front hatch , so what Mike and Victor are wearing are essentially comfort clothes, it's like sportswear that they'll wear under their Dragon Spacex suit in the big loop, all hooks open and nominal.

Mike Hopkins, they are confirming what you are seeing on the screen. The dragon moves away from the international space station. The dragon separation was confirmed visually and Spacex is okay with that. Docking will take place at 7:35 p.m. CT, 5:35 p.m. m., Pacific, while the station and the dragon were 260 miles above Mali, concluding the crew's stay at the international space station that began in November and putting them on a path in the big loop. Output burns zero full nominal copies. We see the same thing and confirmation there of the first of several good burns. taking place again, there are two decoupling burns that occur almost one after the other and they will be followed by exit zero, which is the first of four exit browns, known as uh again, exit zero, it is a brief shot from the dragon of the The dragon's draco thrusters last 16 seconds and increase the dragons' speed by just under half a mile, which causes the dragon to fly away from the space station and sends us on a trajectory that will take it up and around the department. resilience of the space station, have a safe journey home and soft landings resilient asian farm thank you for your hospitality sorry, we are staying a little longer, we will see you back on

earth

, we will be back in a couple of months, this is another view of the dragon getting some light again, you can see the windows well.

Above the red and green lights, this is a cool image of the dragon. You can see the pod towards the bottom of the screen and then the trunk near the top and on the trunk on the white side, that's the radiator, it helps radiate heat and I love it. this glow right now the sun is rising on the space station and on Crew Dragon oh that's cool this view inside Crew Dragon Resilience looks like Victor Glover is in the background eating something and uh it looks like we have people. on the seats, but not completely, those are just the suits.

I had to take a second look because I thought they were on the suits too. They are connected to the umbilicals and they were drying and a few minutes ago we received confirmation that the drying. It's been full, but yeah, they had to do it. I took a quick second because one of them had his visors down. I saw that maybe it was the bottom of the back of the helmet, but yeah, the suits are in place, there's no one in them right now. It looks like the crew is chatting or preparing for the next sortie and we now have views of the interior of crew one.

We just saw Mike Hopkins, the commander, and next to him is Victor Glover to the right of him. In front of them are those three touch screens that allow them to monitor the status of the vehicle where they are in orbit and the next steps during this process of their

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and then on the left you can see Shannon Walker. There, relaxing in her seat on the far right, is Soichi Naguchi Jaxa, the astronaut. These four crew members are scheduled to land in approximately two and a half hours, looking forward to welcoming them home after six months aboard the international space station and the newly decked crew. those suits in about 15 minutes here they're going to do leak checks on the suits, close their visors and make sure there are no leaks in the suits, in the event of a depressurization event the suits inflate and provide some level of protection and a habitable environment for the astronauts again these suits are custom made for each of the astronauts and designed in-house here at

spacex

they are a one piece suit everything is integrated the helmets the gloves the boots are all part of that one piece suit one piece and the astronauts actually just climb up and start closing the zippers.

The helmet itself is made of 3D printed nylon and the white material on the outside is bleached Teflon and there are also some gray pads and that is nomex which is related to nylon but has a couple different properties some chemical resistance and temperature resistance this view right now is from the international space station that white dot in the center of the screen is the dragon capsule, um and the crew is inside there and we continue to adjust the cameras but it continues to return to Earth , but yeah, it's an amazing view so we can see this image of the crew dragon still in space counting down to the start of re-entry, it all happens very quickly once. that begins and this view from our wb 57 plane with its thermal imaging cameras we will be looking for the Crew Dragon to appear and there you can see it at the entrance to the earth's atmosphere Crew Dragon continuing its journey home oh and that is just a fantastic shot that is the dragon reentering the earth's atmosphere as it leaves that trail behind and then again the illuminations of all that heat um that's building up uh due to the friction of just the reentry speeds of the dragon as it encounters the earth's atmosphere and that view coming from the ship, navigator, dragon crew, continues as you said to enter the earth's atmosphere, so having these two views right now, being a pretty exciting night landing, we're getting two good views. re-entry into Earth's atmosphere, so we're waiting for confirmation that the drogue parachutes have deployed, we expect them to deploy any day now and it looks like those could be our drogue shots, two

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visual shots from resilience, we showed good herds of spacex copies and it matches the nominal descent right with two drugs uh, I keep hearing good news after good news uh, two drug shots have been deployed, everything seems nominal and we are slowing down the dragon vehicle, we hope that the four main shots deploy in the next minute and those four drogue shots, oh, you can see them being removed now visually into four main and resistant copies and we see a nominal drop rate copies spacex and the concern matches a decent nominal rate and this view comes from WB-57 very clear image of those four main parachutes slowing the vehicle to approximately 16 miles per hour before splashdown just off the coast of Panama City, Florida, if it were daylight we would have a picture of those four beautiful orange and white parachutes and we would still get these incredible views.

We are on a night landing and what a view we have here even though it is night. We have great footage of the dragon there with its four main sprouts deployed slowly returning to Earth and Spacex we show decent nominal rates. Price of 200 meters per landing. The Spacex copies prepare for splashdown and there are the ships that begin to chase the dragon to begin their recovery operations as soon as the dragon lands and I don't know if you can hear the applause, but we have visual confirmation from the crew on a rebellion resilience capsule, that's great news, we're submerged, we have copies of Spacex and I agree we also make the main cut, so this was the main site we landed off the coast of the city of Panama in Florida.

We had an alternative site off the coast. Tampa had an equivalent number of personnel, hardware, and ships ready to conduct the same type of recovery operations should Dragon have to choose that site over the main one, but things continued to run smoothly and we received a report that The crew is feeling fine inside the capsule, just what we wanted to hear, of course, they will still have that private medical conference and will still receive medical checks once they arrive at the Go Navigator, but there is surprising preliminary news: the crew reports that they are feeling okay and and that's a huge feat in itself to feel okay after six months in microgravity and returning to gravity.

It's big news tonight with the return of Crew Dragon Resilience. Yeah, it's pretty surreal that about seven hours ago this capsule was traveling more than one dragon, wait for the opening and exit of the side hatch, okay, just, we're waiting, hey and uh, while I think about it just for spacex and the NASA teams on behalf of crew one and our families, we just want to say thank you, we want to say thank you for this incredible endurance of the vehicle, as we said before the mission and I will say it again here later, it is surprising what is can achieve when people come together, so finally I would like to say quite frankly, you are all changing the world, congratulations, it's great to be back and jumping, thank you very much, you have a round of applause here at mission control and, From all of us, it has been truly epic to work with your team, from the beginning. development through splashdown uh the world's first long duration space flight uh human space flight your crew is truly a tribute to the name of resilience we wish you all happy reunions with your families and loved ones thank you again for flying spacex thank you only thank you all and here he is uh i I think that's Mike Hopkins, the commander.

He is very excited, feeling pretty good after six months in space. Oh, it's great to see the astronauts exiting the Dragon vehicle. We are just off the coast of Panama City, Florida, and the hatch has opened. there was some materials that were removed, it looks like the footpegs or footpegs were removed and now we just saw Major Mike Hopkins come out of the vehicle doing a little dance.