Watch SpaceX splashdown the Crew-4 astronauts for NASA after a six-month stay at the space station

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SpaceX is acceptable to instrumentality its 4th operational unit ngo from the International Space Station connected Friday, with the quartet of astronauts owed to splash down successful the company's capsule disconnected the seashore of Florida.

The company's Crew Dragon spacecraft "Freedom" is scheduled to undock from the ISS astatine 12:05 p.m. ET to statesman the travel backmost to Earth, with splashdown expected astatine astir 4:55 p.m. ET. The spacecraft was initially scheduled to undock astatine 11:35 a.m. ET but was delayed owed to a hatch seal inspection – however, the 30 infinitesimal hold was inactive wrong a scheduled one-hour model to undock.

Crew-4 includes NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren and Jessica Watkins, arsenic good arsenic European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti. The ngo launched successful April for a six-month enactment connected the orbiting probe laboratory.

Elon Musk's institution launched the Crew-5 ngo past week, bringing 4 different astronauts to the ISS.

SpaceX has present flown 30 radical to orbit since its archetypal crewed motorboat successful May 2020, with six authorities missions and 2 backstage ones.