Astronauts face final leg of SpaceX test flight: coming home

This photo provided by NASA shows, from left, front, astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley during an interview on the International Space Station on Saturday, Aug. 1, 2020. Behnken and Hurley are scheduled to leave the International Space Station in a SpaceX capsule on Saturday and splashdown off the coast of Florida on Sunday.

Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken took part in a farewell ceremony Saturday at the International Space Station, several hours ahead of their planned departure on a SpaceX Dragon capsule., NASA said the weather looks favorable for a Sunday afternoon splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico near Panama City, Florida. It will be the first splashdown for astronauts in 45 years. The last time was following the joint U.S.-Soviet mission in 1975 known as Apollo-Soyuz.

“The hardest part was getting us launched, but the most important is bringing us home,” Behnken said.Space station commander Chris Cassidy, who will remain on board with two Russians until October, presented Hurley with the small U.S. flag left behind by the previous astronauts to launch to the space station from U.S. soil, in July 2011. Hurley was the pilot of that final shuttle mission.

Elon Musk’s SpaceX easily beat Boeing, which isn’t expected to launch its first crew until next year and will land in the U.S. Southwest. The flag has one more flight after this one: to the moon on NASA’s Artemis program in the next few years.

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We can spend all this money on space but not to save the planet. The quest to dominate space is more important than the need to regenerate Earth. I love science and technology we need it, we also need to push for rebuilding the Earth itself to make it our Haven

They’re returning already Thought it was a year long trip😲 ...safe journey back to virus infected earth 🌍 🌏🌎 NASA

Stay up there it is a mess down here and you really don’t want to land anywhere near Florida

i curse them all to lynching because that what they're doing to the world with the fuels and how high they go. Over the years and tests it spreads, No one is perfect, not even them. In order to get close to perfection you have to keep testing.

The first astronauts launched by Elon Musk’s SpaceX company undocked from the International Space Station on Saturday night for the final and most important part of their test flight: returning to Earth with a rare splashdown.

You in International Space Station 08012020 14:00hr. ET. Each human on station take great care of yourself and each other. Astro_SEAL AstroBehnken Astro_Christina Astro_Doug AstroMCollins MeghanMcCain

I’d stay up there as long as possible, if I were them...

You’ll be fine. Godspeed. Relax.

Safe trip home.🙏🙏

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