NASA, SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts undock from space station, return to Earth Tuesday
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NASA and SpaceX have started the process of returning three astronauts and a cosmonaut to Earth.
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The Crew-7 astronauts undocked from the International Space Station around 11:05 a.m. on Monday.
Crew-7 includes NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.
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They launched to the space station from the Kennedy Space Center on Aug. 26.
The team has spent the last 6 months at the station in low-Earth orbit.
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Their departure comes nearly one week after the arrival of Crew-8.
Crew-7 will conduct a series of maneuvers to make their way back to Earth.
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They should return for a splashdown off the coast of Florida around 5:50 a.m. on Tuesday.
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