Crew Dragon with a Russian cosmonaut undocked from the ISS
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The Crew Dragon manned spacecraft undocked from the Harmony module of the American segment of the International Space Station (ISS), reported at Roscosmos.
Crew Dragon departed the ISS on September 3 at 14:05 Moscow time. On board the ship is Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, who will replace Crew-7 crew member Konstantin Borisov. The crew of the Crew-6 mission will return to Earth, which, in addition to Fedyaev, includes NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, as well as UAE astronaut Sultan al-Neyadi. All of them have been working on the ISS since March 2023.
The state corporation reported that the splashdown of the Crew Dragon ship off the coast of Florida is expected on September 4.
The launch of the Falcon-9 launch vehicle with Borisov aboard the Crew Dragon took place on August 26 at 10:27 Moscow time from the NASA Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crew, in addition to the Russians, included representatives of several space agencies. On August 27, NASA confirmed the docking of Crew-7 to the ISS.
On August 29, Roskosmos reported that Borisov had begun accept cases on the Russian segment of the station at Fedyaev, who is preparing to return to Earth as part of the Crew-6 crew. Thus, the cosmonauts and astronauts acquainted the arriving crew with the equipment of the Russian and American segments of the station, and also trained them in their functional duties. In addition, they continued unloading the Progress MS-24 transport ship and conducting space experiments, the state corporation reported.
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