SpaceX Crew Capsule Splashes Down in Pacific After ISS Stay

So we are standing by for that drogue chute deploy to take place here any minute from now. I can expect it around 8:30 a.m. Pacific time, 11:30 a.m. eastern time. Those drogue chutes do deploy when the spacecraft is at approximately 350mph. Brace for drogue window. Say thanks. Dragon. Okay, I guess. Brace for drogue window. So I don't have to say. Against standing by for those drugs chutes to deploy. Some of that communication there was coming from NASA astronaut Jack Hathaway, who was serving as the pilot of free trial today, speaking with the Corps, the crew operations resource engineer here and mission control and Hawthorne, California. And we're. Starting to get a much better view of Dragon. And there you can see that the drogue parachutes have deployed again. These drogue parachutes are used to stabilize and decelerate the spacecraft. And just before that drogue deployment took place on two healthy oaks. Dragon. And you did just hear that they reported two healthy drogue parachutes. And just before those drugs deployed, the seats automatically rotated to about 26 degrees to keep the crew with an acceptable G-Force limits for entry and landing. Without the drogue chutes, we would have to make the main chutes three times stronger and heavier. Those drops chutes to do a lot of work. A few seconds after those drogue chutes are deployed, we should see the main chutes deploying here shortly. There they are. Uh, there are those main chutes slowly opening up there. Great news. This is going to help slow the vehicle down. And by the time that we splashdown, it should be about 16% rate nominal. Probably not at all. If you look old, we have to be back on Earth. Should be about 60mph by the time they splash down. And some good comes between the core and the crew. Again, the crew can't really see what's going on outside of the vehicle, so the core is continuously keeping them updated. SpaceX copies 1000m. And so right there on your screen, you can see some amazing visuals of that Dragon Freedom spacecraft being carried by those four main parachutes that are continuing to slow it down from its initial orbital velocity of about 17,500mph, all the way down to about 16mph, had a splashdown. That splashdown, expected to take place about two minutes from now at 8:34 a.m. Pacific time, 11:34 a.m. Eastern Time to wrap up a seven and a half month mission aboard the International Space Station. So splashdown today. 600m s is 600m. So just about 600m away from that splashdown, again in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Los Angeles, California. Landing in water is simpler, and it does provide more margin against unlikely parachute issues. So SpaceX had to learn how to make Dragon waterproof. And once you do that, it is rinse 400m, breaks the flash copy crew brace for splashdown. And we are standing by for splashdown again, expected to take place about a minute from now at 11:34 a.m. eastern time, 8:34 a.m. Pacific Time and just beautiful views. Getting this daytime view is so awesome as we get to watch The Dragon Freedom spacecraft slowly make its way back down to Earth. It looks quite majestic, but it's definitely a very complicated process with lots of teams involved. Of course, the next step is that recovery. Wow, this view is awesome. All right. Standing by for splashdown. Yes. And as you can see on your screen, we have visual confirmation of splashdown. Dragon freedom has returned home. And Jessica, Jack, Sophie and Andre move down. On behalf of space X, welcome home crew 12. Thank you very. Thank you. Thank you. Not so easy for cosmos.