SpaceX and NASA’s #LaunchAmerica journey is on the verge of completing a successful mission — they’re coming back to Earth, and we’re streaming it live.
American astronauts Robert Behnken and Doug Hurley — who were shot into orbit back in May aboard SpaceX’s Dragon Endeavor — are set to touch down Sunday. Their spacecraft is scheduled to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, FL at 11:45 AM PT
NASA
They’ve been in orbit aboard the ISS for the past 62 days and made 1,024 revolutions around our planet … this after Elon Musk and co. sent them up in an effort to get more American space missions kickstarted … not to mention potential space tourism in the near future.
SpaceX
The initial launch went off without a hitch — after the Falcon 9 rocket took Bob and Doug to a certain point … it landed safely aboard a ship waiting out at sea. The boys then took control from there, and once they were close enough … they docked with the ISS.
The #LaunchAmerica mission marks the first time in nearly a decade since Americans have been up among the stars.