On March 11th, Eastern Standard Time, the US SpaceX's "Dragon" spacecraft, carrying 4 astronauts, detached from the International Space Station, embarking on its journey back to Earth.
According to NASA, the "Dragon" spacecraft separated from the International Space Station at 11:20 AM EST on March 11th (11:20 PM Beijing time), and is expected to land in the waters near Florida around 5:50 AM EST on March 12th (5:50 PM Beijing time).
On August 26, 2023, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched, carrying the crewed Dragon spacecraft into space.
The four astronauts returning to Earth aboard the Dragon spacecraft were American astronaut Jasmine Moghbeli, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Russian astronaut Konstantin Borisov. They embarked on their journey to the International Space Station (ISS) from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 26 last year, on a mission named "Crew-7." The spacecraft automatically docked with the ISS the following day.
The Dragon spacecraft is the first crewed vehicle built by a private company to transport astronauts to and from the space station in the United States, and it's also the first new type of crewed spacecraft to be certified by NASA for regular astronaut transport to and from the ISS since the Space Shuttle.
