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Once given the “go” for undocking, Endeavour undocked from the ISS.Īfter performing several planned departure burns, Endeavour began a fly-around maneuver to photograph the exterior of the International Space Station. Meanwhile, the Crew-2 astronauts donned their SpaceX pressure suits in preparation for undocking.Īdditionally, a go/no-go poll was conducted by NASA and SpaceX teams. Following the closing of Endeavour’s hatch, Vande Hei closed the IDA-3 hatch and began the vestibule depressurization process. (Credit: ESA/NASA/Thomas Pesquet)īefore undocking, Kimbrough, McArthur, Pesquet, and Hoshide entered Endeavour and closed Crew Dragon’s hatch, with assistance from NASA astronaut and Expedition 65 crew member Mark Vande Hei aboard the space station. Endeavour has remained docked at IDA-3 since this maneuver was completed, and it is from here that it departed on Monday.Ĭrew-2 Dragon Endevaour (top) docked to IDA-3 with CRS-23 Dragon C208-2 (below) docked to IDA-2 in September 2021. However, to make way for the then-planned NASA/Boeing Starliner Orbital Flight Test 2 (OFT-2) mission, the crew of Crew-2 entered Endeavour and relocated to the IDA-3 zenith (upward-facing) docking port in July. As such, Hurley and Behnken named Crew Dragon C206 Endeavour in honor of Space Shuttle Endeavour, the spacecraft that both astronauts made their first flight to space in.Ĭrew-2 initially docked to the forward-facing International Docking Adapter 2 (IDA-2) docking port attached to the ISS’s Harmony module. As such, Crew-2 marked Endeavour’s second trip to space and the ISS - making Crew Dragon the first fully reusable crew capsule to be developed.Ĭrew Dragon spacecraft are named by the first crew to fly them into orbit. See AlsoĮndeavour was the Crew Dragon to first ferry humans to orbit under NASA’s Commercial Crew Program when it launched NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken on the Demo-2 mission in May 2020. Kimbrough and McArthur serve as Dragon’s commander and pilot respectively, while Thomas Pesquet and Akihiko Hoshide are flying aboard Endeavour as mission specialists. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule C206-2, named Endeavour, served as Crew-2’s ride to space. I told them on the launchpad, and it's unchanged after 6 months in a tin can 24/7! Go #Crew2! #friendsforlife /TQ3pVUsZFF I couldn’t have hoped for better crewmates, or better people fly to space with. It’s been a fantastic ride and now we’re ready to go home and reunite with our loved ones. Following their arrival at the ISS in April, the Crew-2 astronauts joined the Expedition 65 crew aboard the station. The astronauts aboard Crew-2 are NASA’s Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur, Thomas Pesquet of the European Space Agency (ESA) and Akihiko Hoshide of the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA).
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The splashdown of Endeavour concluded a 199-day mission at the ISS for the Crew-2 astronauts. Crew Dragon Endeavour docked to the ISS the following day. EST.Ĭrew-2’s mission began with a launch to the ISS atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 23. EST (19:05 UTC) Monday, with a splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean at 10:33 p.m. Crew Dragon Endeavour undocked from the ISS at 2:05 p.m. NASA and SpaceX teams has completed the safe return of the Crew-2 mission from the International Space Station (ISS) with four astronauts on board.