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[b]Sunday splashdown set for Crew-1[/b] SpaceX's Crew-1 mission is now targeting a return to Earth no earlier than about 2:57 a.m. EDT (0657 GMT) Sunday (May 2), in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. The Crew Dragon Resilience is scheduled to undock from the International Space Station at 8:35 p.m. EDT on Saturday (0035 GMT May 2) to begin the journey home. Hatch closure of the Resilience will be on Saturday at 6:20 p.m. EDT (2220 GMT). NASA and SpaceX decided to move Crew-1's undocking and splashdown from Friday, April 30, and Saturday, May 1, respectively, following a review of the forecast weather conditions in the splashdown zones off the coast of Florida, which predicted wind speeds above the return criteria. Teams now forecast ideal conditions for both splashdown and recovery during the weekend. This will be the third night splashdown in history, following the unplanned landing in a lake by cosmonauts Vyacheslav Zudov and Valery Rozhdestvensky aboard Soyuz 23 on Oct. 16, 1976, and Apollo 8's predawn return in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 27, 1968, with NASA astronauts Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Bill Anders.
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