Commercial crew departs space station, heads for Monday splashdown

A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four non-professional astronauts, the first fully commercial, non-government crew to visit the International Space Station, undocked from the outpost Sunday, heading for re-entry and splashdown Monday to close out an extended 17-day mission.

The Ax-1 crew as seen before launch in the seats they'll occupy for landing Monday : Canadian Mark Pathy, pilot Larry Connor, commander Michael López-Alegría and Israeli Eytan Stibbe.After spending a final"night" in space, the Crew Dragon fliers planned to monitor an automated nine-minute firing of the spacecraft's braking rockets at 12:16 p.m. Monday, slowing the ship by about 132 mph to drop the far side of the orbit into the atmosphere.

The mission was carried out with NASA's cooperation and encouragement, part of an agency initiative to spur private-sector utilization of the International Space Station and the eventual development of commercial research stations in Earth orbit.

CBSDFW Elon Musk, let the show begin. The stage is set for the confrontation of Americans against Americans, regardless of social, political, educational, racial and economic status. You are the chosen one to start this madness.

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