{"id":104866,"date":"2020-08-02T10:00:21","date_gmt":"2020-08-02T17:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.46.6.243\/?p=104866"},"modified":"2020-08-02T12:01:37","modified_gmt":"2020-08-02T19:01:37","slug":"astronauts-target-splashdown-off-coast-of-pensacola-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=104866","title":{"rendered":"Astronauts Target Splashdown off Coast of Pensacola, Florida (Update&#8230;Safe Splashdown)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX&#8230;.NASA astronauts\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/robert-l-behnken\/\">Robert Behnken<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/astronauts\/biographies\/douglas-g-hurley\">Douglas Hurley<\/a>\u00a0are just hours away from splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Splashdown remains scheduled for 2:48 p.m. EDT following a nearly two-month test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/H-l6f4wcv2I\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Pensacola, Florida remains the prime location with\u00a0<em>Go Navigator<\/em>\u00a0as the recovery vessel. The recovery boat departed its port at 9:20 a.m. to stage for recovery operations in the Gulf of Mexico.\u00a0<em>Go Navigator<\/em>\u00a0is operating with a fully functioning generator and is ready to support splashdown operations this afternoon. Earlier this morning, a backup generator failed on the recovery ship prior to leaving port, but that is not considered an impact for normal recovery operations. The recovery vessel still has full capability to safely recover the spacecraft and crew.<\/p>\n<p>Return conditions remain \u201cGo\u201d at the primary and alternate targeted sites.<\/p>\n<p>The duo arrived at the International Space Station on May 31, following a successful launch on May 30 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.\u00a0During their\u00a062\u00a0days aboard station, Behnken and Hurley contributed more than 100 hours of time to supporting the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/mission_pages\/station\/research\/behnken-hurley-science-scrapbook\/\">orbiting laboratory\u2019s investigations<\/a>, participated in public engagement events, and supported four spacewalks with Behnken and Cassidy to install new batteries in the station\u2019s power grid and upgrade other station hardware.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the return can be found in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/feature\/top-10-things-to-know-for-nasa-s-spacex-demo-2-return\">Top 10 Things to Know for NASA\u2019s SpaceX Demo-2 Return<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/atoms\/files\/ccp_splashdown.pdf\">splashdown weather criteria fact sheet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More details about the mission and\u00a0NASA\u2019s commercial crew program can be found in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/specials\/ccp-press-kit\/main.html\">press kit online<\/a>\u00a0and by following the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.nasa.gov\/commercialcrew\/\">commercial crew blog<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/commercial_crew\">@commercial_crew<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/NASACommercialCrew\">commercial crew on Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more about station activities by following\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/space_station\">@space_station<\/a>\u202fand\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ISS_Research\">@ISS_Research<\/a><\/p>\n<p>on Twitter as well as the\u202f<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ISS\">ISS Facebook<\/a>\u202fand\u202f<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/ISS\/\">ISS Instagram<\/a>\u202faccounts.<\/p>\n<p>Source = NASA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston, TX&#8230;.NASA astronauts\u00a0Robert Behnken\u00a0and\u00a0Douglas Hurley\u00a0are just hours away from splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida. Splashdown remains scheduled for 2:48 p.m. EDT following a nearly two-month test flight of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft as part of NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program. Pensacola, Florida remains the prime location with\u00a0Go Navigator\u00a0as the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":104867,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20,5,4,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-featured","category-government","category-life-style","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/blog_doug_bob_spacex_crew_dragon_2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=104866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/104867"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=104866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=104866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=104866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}