NASA’s SpaceX Crew 1 Mission Splashes Down May 2, 2021 Usaadmin Future Space Exploration, NASA </p> <h2>Astronauts are on their way Home</h2> <p> Four Astronauts are on their way Home. Join us for the final leg of their journey from the International Space Station #iSS back to Earth, as the #SpaceX Crew Dragon #Resilience re-enters Earth’s atmosphere and splashes down at about 2:57 a.m. EDT (6:57​ UTC) Sun., May 2, in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.<br /> Aboard the Crew Dragon are NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).<br /> This will be the first night splashdown of a U.S. crewed spacecraft since Apollo 8’s predawn return in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 27, 1968, with NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.<br /> <br /> Credit to : NASA</p> <p>
