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<\/a>Watch live coverage now on NASA TV and the agency\u2019s website<\/a> as undocking preparations continue for the return of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with astronauts Michael Hopkins<\/a>, Victor Glover<\/a>, and Shannon Walker<\/a> of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi<\/a> of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from the International Space Station<\/a>.<\/p>\n After the Crew-1 astronauts closed the Dragon hatch at 6:26 p.m. EDT, Expedition 65 astronauts closed the hatch of the orbital laboratory. With Crew-1 astronauts seated inside SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon Resilience spacecraft, teams are conducting standard leak checks and depressurization of the space between the spacecraft, called the vestibule, in preparation for its undocking and return to Earth.<\/p>\n NASA and SpaceX are targeting 8:35 p.m. for Crew Dragon to autonomously undock from the space station, with its four international crew members aboard the spacecraft, and return to Earth. After hooks holding Crew Dragon in place retract, two very small engine burns at 8:30 p.m. and 8:32 p.m. will fire to separate the spacecraft from the station.<\/p>\n Conditions remain \u201cGo\u201d at the primary targeted site, off the coast of Panama City, Florida, for splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico about 2:57 a.m. on Sunday, May 2.<\/p>\n More details about the mission and\u00a0NASA\u2019s commercial crew program can be found 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> 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":" Watch live coverage now on NASA TV and the agency\u2019s website as undocking preparations continue for the return of NASA\u2019s SpaceX Crew-1 mission with astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) from the International Space Station. After the Crew-1 astronauts closed the \u2026 Continue reading