Author Topic: SpaceX F9 / Crew Dragon : Crew-1 - EOM/Return: May 2, 2021 (06:56:45) - UPDATES (Read 75124 times)

Thunderscreech · « **Reply #20 on:** 04/30/2021 04:12 pm »

They’ve also posted a new landing zone candidate for Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico instead:

https://twitter.com/spacetfrs/status/1388160884141400074?s=21

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #21 on:** 04/30/2021 04:19 pm »

https://twitter.com/sciguyspace/status/1388165877145784320

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Current plan for Crew-1 return, assuming the current weather forecast holds:

· 8:34 pm ET Saturday undock/separation

· 2:56 am ET Sunday splashdown in the Gulf

Targeteer · « **Reply #22 on:** 04/30/2021 04:26 pm »

Crew has been cleared to start moving cargo into Dragon

SMS · « **Reply #23 on:** 04/30/2021 06:45 pm »

https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1388178023829147654

https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1388178270299033600

https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1388178469440393218

SMS · « **Reply #24 on:** 04/30/2021 06:58 pm »

Sunday Splashdown Set for Crew-1 During Light Day on Station

Mark Garcia Posted on April 30, 2021

Four SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts are making final preparations ahead of their return to Earth this weekend. Some of the Expedition 65 crew members staying behind on the International Space Station are relaxing today while others are focusing on science and lab maintenance.

Mission managers have decided to send Crew Dragon Resilience and its four astronauts back to Earth on Sunday. Resilience will undock from the Harmony module’s space-facing international docking adapter during an automated maneuver on Saturday at 8:35 p.m. EDT. It will splashdown about six-and-a-half hours later in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida.

Hatch closure of the Resilience will be on Saturday at 6:20 p.m. with NASA TV beginning its broadcast at 6 p.m. Live continuous coverage of the undocking and splashdown activities starts at 8:15 p.m.

Resilience Commander Michael Hopkins and Pilot Victor Glover are finishing packing up personal items and emergency hardware inside Resilience today. They were assisted by Crew-1 Mission Specialists Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi who also loaded science freezers filled with research samples inside the Crew Dragon. When the Crew-1 astronauts land they will have spent 168 days in space since launching to the station on Nov. 15 last year.

The newest crew aboard the orbital lab, the four SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts, are relaxing today. Station Commander Akihiko Hoshide and Flight Engineers Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet and Shane Kimbrough had their schedules cleared on Friday ahead of Saturday night’s Crew-1 undocking.

NASA astronaut Mark Vande Hei, who rode to space aboard the Soyuz MS-18 crew ship, processed samples for the Food Physiology experiment amidst a mostly slow day for him. Glover finalized his science work early Friday as he collected and stowed his blood and urine samples for later analysis.

The station’s two cosmonauts, Flight Engineers Oleg Novitskiy and Pyotr Dubrov, stayed focused on maintenance in the orbiting lab’s Russian segment. The duo worked on power connections, ventilation systems and computer hardware throughout Friday.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2021/04/30/sunday-splashdown-set-for-crew-1-during-light-day-on-station/

SMS · « **Reply #25 on:** 04/30/2021 06:59 pm »

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1388205527033733122

SMS · « **Reply #26 on:** 04/30/2021 07:35 pm »

https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/nasatv/schedule.html

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May 1, Saturday
6 p.m. – Coverage of the Hatch Closure of the Crew Dragon “Resilience” Prior to the Crew-1 Undocking from the International Space Station (Hatch closure scheduled at 6:20 p.m. EDT) – Johnson Space Center/Hawthorne, California
8:15 p.m. – Coverage of the Undocking of the SpaceX Crew Dragon “Resilience” from the Harmony zenith port at the ISS and Continuous Coverage of through Splashdown and Crew Recovery on Sunday, May 2 (Undocking scheduled at 8:35 p.m. EDT; Hopkins, Glover, Noguchi, Walker) – Johnson Space Center/Hawthorne, California

May 2, Sunday
Continuous Coverage of the Return of the SpaceX Crew-1 Astronauts Aboard “Resilience” and Splashdown (Splashdown scheduled at 2:57 a.m. EDT) – Johnson Space Center/Hawthorne, California

5 a.m. – SpaceX Crew Dragon Crew-1 Splashdown News Conference (time subject to change) – Johnson Space Center

SMS · « **Reply #27 on:** 04/30/2021 08:26 pm »

https://twitter.com/Astro_Soichi/status/1388224541835599884

Rondaz · « **Reply #28 on:** 04/30/2021 08:45 pm »

UPDATE: NASA’s @SpaceX Crew-1 mission is now targeting a return to Earth no earlier than ~2:57am ET (06:57 UT) Sun., May 2.

Satellite Undocking from the @Space_Station is now targeted for 8:35pm ET, Sat., May 1 (00:35 UT, Sun., May 2). Details:

https://twitter.com/NASA/status/1388212814154768389

Rondaz · « **Reply #29 on:** 04/30/2021 08:51 pm »

@NASA’s @SpaceX Crew-1 mission is now targeted to return to Earth no earlier than about 2:57am ET on May 2 in the Gulf of Mexico. Crew Dragon Resilience is scheduled to undock from the @Space_Station at 8:35pm on May 1 to begin the journey home:

https://twitter.com/Commercial_Crew/status/1388212766369067013

Ken the Bin · « **Reply #30 on:** 04/30/2021 08:57 pm »

Here's the new "Space Debris" notice from the NGA.

Quote from: NGA

301952Z APR 21
NAVAREA IV 358/21(11).
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
GULF OF MEXICO
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, SPACE DEBRIS:
A. 030550Z TO 030620Z MAY, ALTERNATE
040530Z TO 040600Z AND 041350Z TO 041420Z MAY
IN AREA BOUND BY
29-20-45N 080-13-48W, 28-50-56N 079-43-04W,
28-21-14N 080-13-48W, 28-50-56N 080-44-31W.
B. 040530Z TO 040600Z MAY, ALTERNATE
041345Z TO 041415Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
30-17-45N 080-35-59W, 29-47-56N 080-04-58W,
29-18-14N 080-35-59W, 29-47-56N 081-07-01W.
C. 040535Z TO 040605Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
31-24-45N 080-15-00W, 30-54-56N 079-43-36W,
30-25-14N 080-15-00W, 30-54-56N 080-46-23W.
D. 020640Z TO 020710Z MAY, ALTERNATE
040550Z TO 040620Z, 040555Z TO 040625Z
AND 041410Z TO 041440Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
30-15-43N 086-01-40W, 29-45-54N 085-30-39W,
29-16-11N 086-01-40W, 29-45-54N 086-32-42W.
E. 040600Z TO 040630Z MAY, ALTERNATE
040555Z TO 040625Z AND 041415Z TO 041445Z MAY
IN AREA BOUND BY
30-15-59N 087-29-59W, 29-48-03N 088-02-15W,
29-19-44N 087-29-51W, 29-48-01N 086-57-26W.
F. 021455Z TO 021525Z MAY, ALTERNATE
040540Z TO 040610Z AND
041405Z TO 041435Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
29-44-45N 084-12-00W, 29-14-56N 083-41-09W,
28-45-14N 084-12-00W, 29-14-56N 084-42-50W.
G. 040535Z TO 040605Z MAY, ALTERNATE
041405Z TO 041435Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
28-59-45N 083-45-00W, 28-29-56N 083-14-20W,
28-00-14N 083-45-00W, 28-29-56N 084-15-39W.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 333/21.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 041545Z MAY 21.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #31 on:** 05/01/2021 12:27 am »

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UPCOMING RETURN
CREW-1 TO DEPART FROM THE INTERNATIONAL SPACE STATION

SpaceX and NASA are targeting Saturday, May 1 at 8:35 p.m. EDT, or 00:35 UTC on May 2, for Dragon to autonomously undock from the International Space Station (ISS) and splashdown off the coast of Florida on Sunday, May 2 at approximately 2:57 a.m. EDT, 6:57 UTC, completing its first six-month operational mission to the Station.

A series of departure burns will move Dragon away from the orbiting laboratory, followed by the vehicle jettisoning the trunk to reduce weight and mass to help save propellant for the deorbit burn. Once complete, Dragon will re-enter Earth’s atmosphere and deploy its two drogue and four main parachutes in preparation for a soft water landing.

Aboard the spacecraft will be NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi, who flew to the space station on Dragon six months ago when Falcon 9 launched the spacecraft from historic Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Sunday, November 15, 2021.

Upon splashdown, the Dragon and the astronauts will be quickly recovered and returned to Cape Canaveral and Houston respectively. Once the mission is complete, Dragon will be inspected and refurbished for future human spaceflight missions. Re-watch Falcon 9’s launch of the Crew-1 mission here and Dragon’s docking to the International Space Station here.

You can watch a live webcast of this mission, which will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff, by clicking the image above.

SMS · « **Reply #32 on:** 05/01/2021 11:04 am »

Soyuz TMA-05M was NOT splashdown as Bill's noted in his message!

Ken the Bin · « **Reply #33 on:** 05/01/2021 11:52 am »

A cancel-and-replace for the NGA "Space Debris" notice issued yesterday.

Quote from: NGA

011124Z MAY 21
NAVAREA IV 359/21(11).
WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC.
GULF OF MEXICO
FLORIDA.
1. HAZARDOUS OPERATIONS, SPACE DEBRIS:
A. 040530Z TO 040600Z MAY, ALTERNATE
061305Z TO 061335Z AND 071240Z TO 071310Z MAY
IN AREA BOUND BY
29-20-45N 080-13-48W, 28-50-56N 079-43-04W,
28-21-14N 080-13-48W, 28-50-56N 080-44-31W.
B. 040530Z TO 040600Z MAY, ALTERNATE
061305Z TO 061335Z AND 071235Z TO 071305Z MAY
IN AREA BOUND BY
30-17-45N 080-35-59W, 29-47-56N 080-04-58W,
29-18-14N 080-35-59W, 29-47-56N 081-07-01W.
C. 040535Z TO 040605Z MAY, ALTERNATE
061255Z TO 061325Z, 071230Z TO 071300Z AND
081210Z TO 081240Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
31-24-45N 080-15-00W, 30-54-56N 079-43-36W,
30-25-14N 080-15-00W, 30-54-56N 080-46-23W.
D. 020640Z TO 020710Z MAY, ALTERNATE
040555Z TO 040625Z, 051350Z TO 051420Z AND
071300Z TO 071330Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
30-15-43N 086-01-40W, 29-45-54N 085-30-39W,
29-16-11N 086-01-40W, 29-45-54N 086-32-42W.
E. 040600Z TO 040630Z MAY, ALTERNATE
051355Z TO 051425Z AND 071305Z TO 071335Z MAY
IN AREA BOUND BY
30-15-59N 087-29-59W, 29-48-03N 088-02-15W,
29-19-44N 087-29-51W, 29-48-01N 086-57-26W.
F. 040540Z TO 040610Z MAY, ALTERNATE
071255Z TO 071325Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
29-44-45N 084-12-00W, 29-14-56N 083-41-09W,
28-45-14N 084-12-00W, 29-14-56N 084-42-50W.
G. 040535Z TO 040605Z MAY, ALTERNATE
071255Z TO 071325Z MAY IN AREA BOUND BY
28-59-45N 083-45-00W, 28-29-56N 083-14-20W,
28-00-14N 083-45-00W, 28-29-56N 084-15-39W.
2. CANCEL NAVAREA IV 358/21.
3. CANCEL THIS MSG 081340Z MAY 21.

FutureSpaceTourist · « **Reply #34 on:** 05/01/2021 12:13 pm »

https://twitter.com/spacexfleet/status/1388466232626720768

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It's happening!

Dragon recovery ship GO Navigator has departed from the Port of Pensacola and is making its way towards the primary Crew-1 splashdown site, near Panama City, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Splashdown is targeted for 2:56am ET on Sunday morning.

Mat-FoundInSpace · « **Reply #35 on:** 05/01/2021 02:20 pm »

Quote from: JAFO on 05/01/2021 12:25 am

Wonder where the reentry plasma trail will be visible? Still have fond memories of watching STS-93 from hotel parking lot at Hobby Airport.

From Dragon re-entry after CRS-21, taken from south of Tallahassee. Splashdown was offshore Tampa.

If weather cooperates, it'll be visible all along the northern Gulf Coast I'd imagine.

SMS · « **Reply #36 on:** 05/01/2021 03:10 pm »

https://twitter.com/Enterprise_Flt/status/1388499279971508224

Rondaz · « **Reply #37 on:** 05/01/2021 04:19 pm »

.@NASA and @SpaceX teams will be in the Gulf of Mexico to retrieve the four Crew-1 astronauts when they splashdown early Sunday.

https://twitter.com/Space_Station/status/1388516059448102916

SMS · « **Reply #38 on:** 05/01/2021 04:59 pm »

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/nasa-s-spacex-crew-rescue-and-recovery

is the same as:

https://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/index.php?topic=51100.msg2111414#msg2111414

Rondaz · « **Reply #39 on:** 05/01/2021 06:20 pm »

Coming home soon! It’s been a great mission with great teams both on the ground and on @Space_Station. Here are some of my favorite memories from the past 6 and a half months on-orbit…

https://twitter.com/Astro_illini/status/1388529025849520129