WASHINGTON, Mar 9 The Crew Dragon manned spacecraft, carrying a crew of four, including Russia's Anna Kikina, will undock on March 11, NASA said Thursday.
It was previously planned that the crew of Crew-5 would leave orbit on Thursday, March 9, but due to adverse weather conditions in the area of the landing of the ship, a decision was made to postpone it.
According to the latest data from NASA, the ship is now scheduled to leave orbit on March 11th. «The spacecraft is scheduled to undock from the space station at 02:05 (10:05 Moscow time) to return home,» NASA said.
According to the calculations of the US space agency, the ship's capsule will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida on Saturday at 21.19 US East Coast time (05.19 Moscow time on Sunday, March 12 — ed.). Together with Kikina, Americans Nicol Mann and Josh Kassada, as well as Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, will return to Earth. All of them arrived at the ISS on the Crew Dragon spacecraft last October.
After the return of the Crew-5 crew, Russians Sergei Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin, as well as NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, who flew into orbit on the Russian Soyuz spacecraft, remain in orbit MS-22″, as well as Roskosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, American astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, and UAE astronaut Sultan Al-Neyadi, who arrived on Crew Dragon as part of the Crew-6 crew.