
The Crew Dragon spacecraft with the first fully civilian crew undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 21:10 US East Coast time ( 04:10 Moscow time) and headed for Earth, according to the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) .
The ship is expected to splash down at 13:06 US East Coast time (20:06 Moscow time) off the coast of Florida. The ship will return to Earth with more than 200 pounds of science supplies and NASA equipment.
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Crew Dragon went into orbit on April 8, it was assumed that the crew members would spend 8 days there. The crew includes American entrepreneur Larry Connor, Israeli businessman Eitan Stibbe and Canadian investor Mark Paty. The commander is former NASA astronaut and Axiom vice president Michael Lopez-Allegria, who has flown into space four times before.
SpaceX launched Crew Dragon with NASA and Axiom Space, which hosted the Axiom-1 commercial mission. The company plans to build the world's first commercial space station in the future. Officially, Axiom did not disclose how much Connor, Stibbe and Paty paid for the flight. According to the Washington Post, the trip to the ISS cost each passenger $55 million.