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<\/a>NASA astronauts\u00a0Robert Behnken<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Douglas Hurley<\/a> are just hours away from splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Splashdown remains scheduled for 2:48 p.m. EDT following a nearly two-month test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program.<\/p>\n Pensacola, Florida remains the prime location with Go Navigator<\/em> as the recovery vessel. The recovery boat departed its port at 9:20 a.m. to stage for recovery operations in the Gulf of Mexico. Go Navigator<\/em> is operating with a fully functioning generator and is ready to support splashdown operations this afternoon. Earlier this morning, a backup generator failed on the recovery ship prior to leaving port, but that is not considered an impact for normal recovery operations. The recovery vessel still has full capability to safely recover the spacecraft and crew.<\/p>\n Return conditions remain \u201cGo\u201d at the primary and alternate targeted sites.<\/p>\n The duo arrived at the International Space Station on May 31, following a successful launch on May 30 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\u00a0During their\u00a062\u00a0days aboard station, Behnken and Hurley contributed more than 100 hours of time to supporting the\u00a0orbiting laboratory\u2019s investigations<\/a>, participated in public engagement events, and supported four spacewalks with Behnken and Cassidy to install new batteries in the station\u2019s power grid and upgrade other station hardware.<\/p>\n More details about the return can be found in the\u00a0Top 10 Things to Know for NASA\u2019s SpaceX Demo-2 Return<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0splashdown weather criteria fact sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n More details about the mission and\u00a0NASA\u2019s commercial crew program can be found in the\u00a0press kit online<\/a>\u00a0and by following the\u00a0commercial crew blog<\/a>,\u00a0@commercial_crew<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0commercial crew on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n Learn more about station activities by following\u202f@space_station<\/a>\u202fand\u00a0@ISS_Research<\/a><\/p>\n on Twitter as well as the\u202fISS Facebook<\/a>\u202fand\u202fISS Instagram<\/a>\u202faccounts.<\/p>\n Get The Details…<\/a><\/p>\n Mark Garcia <\/p>\n Powered by WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley are just hours away from splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Splashdown remains scheduled for 2:48 p.m. EDT following a nearly two-month test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. Pensacola, Florida remains the prime location with Go Navigator … Continue reading