JAKARTA – NASA announced that the Crew-8 expedition group, to the International Space Station (ISS), will return tomorrow, Sunday, October 13. As usual, the crew will return home with a drone.
NASA and SpaceX, the company developing the dragon spaceplane, are targeting the launch at 18:05 WIB. However, this date and time will be adjusted to weather conditions.
If possible, Dragona is expected to land on October 15 at 00:38 WIB. Until now, the mission manager is still monitoring the weather conditions to ensure that the Dragona plane can withdraw from the ISS without problems.
“Dragon releases depend on various factors, including spacecraft readiness, recovery team readiness, meteorology, sea conditions and other factors. NASA will select a closer landing time and particular location,” NASA said via its official website.
The Crew-8 mission will take home four crews. The plane’s four crew are NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barrik and Jeanette Epps, as well as Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
Dominick and his three colleagues spent seven months on the ISS finalizing a scientific expedition. They worked on a variety of important, Earth-time sensitive research.
The process of returning the Crew-8 will be broadcast online on the NASA 2020 channel. The US space agency will show the process of closing the landing until the drone docks.
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