SpaceX F9 / Crew Dragon : Crew-7 : KSC LC-39A : 26 August 2023 (07:27 UTC)

• #580 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:27
• Entry Interface in few minutes

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• #581 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:30
• Visor down

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• #582 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:36
• Entry Interface alt ~120 km.

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• #583 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:37
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  Crew 7: The Crew Dragon has fallen back into the discernible atmosphere, on a NW-to-SE trajectory that will carry it across the central US toward splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico south of Pensacola, Florida; now about 12 minutes to splashdown

  
  https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1767484713671770171
• #584 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:39

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• #585 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:42

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• #586 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:44
• Drogue chutes deployment.

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• #587 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:46
• Main chutes (4) deployment

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• #588 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:46
• Alt. 800 meters.

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• #589 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:47
• 400 meters.

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• #590 by FutureSpaceTourist on 12 Mar, 2024 08:47
• https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1767487472345514026
  
  

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  Dragon’s four main parachutes have deployed
• #591 by catdlr on 12 Mar, 2024 08:48
• https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1767487572929061316
• #592 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:48
• Splashdown !

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• #593 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:49

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• #594 by catdlr on 12 Mar, 2024 08:49
• https://twitter.com/cbs_spacenews/status/1767487827607011374
  
  

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  Crew 7: Splashdown confirmed; at 5:47am EDT (1047 UTC), within sight of SpaceX recovery crews
• #595 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:50
• "Stable 1" orientation

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• #596 by FutureSpaceTourist on 12 Mar, 2024 08:50
• https://twitter.com/commercial_crew/status/1767492299838116071
  
  

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  Welcome home! 🏠
  
  @NASA’s @SpaceX #Crew7 splashed down safely in the SpaceX Dragon Endurance in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, at 5:47 am ET after 197 days aboard @Space_Station completing important @ISS_Research.
• #597 by FutureSpaceTourist on 12 Mar, 2024 08:53
• https://twitter.com/nasa_johnson/status/1767489014385566049
  
  

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  And splashdown!
  
  #Crew7 has returned to Earth after spending nearly six-months aboard the @Space_Station conducting science and research. The crew safely splashed down off the coast of Florida at 5:47am ET on Tuesday, March 12.

  
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  https://twitter.com/spacex/status/1767489129225625943
  
  

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  Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth, @AstroJaws, @Astro_Andreas, @Astro_Satoshi, and Kostya!
• #598 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:53
• Recovery team approaching the capsule...

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• #599 by centaurinasa on 12 Mar, 2024 08:57
• Rebecca Turkington, Strategic Communications Lead at NASA.

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