BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — A team of astronauts that launched from Florida’s Space Coast last year is spending their final days in orbit before heading home.
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The SpaceX Crew-5 mission launched to the International Space Station last October.
Thursday’s planned undocking was pushed back because of weather at the splashdown site.
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Crew-5 is now set to leave around 2 a.m. Saturday before splashing down off Florida’s coast just after 9 p.m.
Channel 9 will have continuing coverage of Crew-5′s return to Earth on Eyewitness News.
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