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SpaceX manned spacecraft Dragon undocks from ISS to head home

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NASA launches its SpaceX Crew-7 mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S., August 26, 2023. /China Media Group
NASA launches its SpaceX Crew-7 mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S., August 26, 2023. /China Media Group

NASA launches its SpaceX Crew-7 mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida, U.S., August 26, 2023. /China Media Group

NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday and is on the way back to Earth, according to NASA.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the ISS at 11:20 a.m. Monday Eastern Time to begin the journey home. It is scheduled to splash down off the coast of the U.S. state of Florida at approximately 5:50 a.m. Tuesday Eastern Time, wrapping up the Crew-7's months-long science expedition aboard the ISS.

The four-member crew consists of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. The mission was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on August 26, 2023. 

(With input from Xinhua)

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