Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken aboard SpaceX’s Dragon capsule, called Endeavour, from the International Space Station (ISS) on Saturday.
The ISS showed on Twitter that the Endeavour had landed at 7:35 p.m. ET “to complete a two-month mission.”
“Two very small engine burns separated @SpaceX Endeavour from the station,” he said.
The spacecraft slowly moves away from the orbiting lab into an orbital runway that will bring @AstroBehnken – Astro_Dougsafely back to Earth for a landing on Sunday. “
Early Saturday, NASA announced that the weather is “good” for them to detach and splash in the Atlantic Ocean.
Both his target touchdown against Pensacola, Florida Panhandle, and the chosen touchdown in Panama were deemed appropriate for touchdown.
Flight controllers had been following Tropical Storm Isaiah closely and were working to assess the possible effect on landing sites.
Isaiah’s winds reached 85 mph on Saturday morning and a further strengthening could be imagined, the National Hurricane Center in Miami said.
Isaiah was demoted to tropical typhoon shortly before 5pm. On Saturday, however, hurricane experts said they expected it to return to a hurricane overnight.
The firm said Elon Musk’s company would “monitor settings in situations up to 2.5 hours before planned decoupling.”
“We don’t control the weather and we know we can stay here longer, there’s more food, and I know the area station’s show has more paints than we can do,” Behnken told reporters in a press call before disembarking.
NASA flight director Zebulon Scoville wrote on Twitter that Isaiah could help astronauts make a smart landing.
The landing, the first for SpaceX with astronauts on board, is scheduled to take place Sunday at 2:48 p.m. Et.
Officials said it would take about an hour to send the capsule through a crane to a SpaceX recovery ship.
Flight surgeons will be from the dozens of members of the recovery team.
Hurley said that if he and Behnken were in poor health while jumping into the waves while awaiting recovery, it wouldn’t be the first time for a crew.
Astronauts who returned from Skylab, nasa’s first station in the area, in the 1970s, didn’t feel good after splashes, Hurley said.
Hurley and Behnken were first introduced to the area on May 30 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the first launch of a U.S. team in nearly a decade.
The SpaceX capsule had been attached to the ISS since May 31, allowing American astronauts to participate in spacewalks and experiments.
Isaiah is lately a tropical typhoon and already has strong winds and flash floods in Puerto Rico, as well as damaged assets in the Bahamas and Dominican Republic.
The storm’s existing trajectory leads to several possible landing sites for NASA’s SpaceX mission.
The Crew Dragon spacecraft that will bring land to the homes of Behnken and Hurley if there are winds greater than 10 mph.
It also lands in case of rain, lightning or giant waves.
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