due to Tropical Storm Isaias barreling up Florida’s east coast the options on the west coast are a better bet.[Watch the splashdown events on NASA TV at the top of this story.]Behnken and Hurley arrived at the orbiting laboratory on May 31, after becoming the first to launch on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and Crew Dragon capsule from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The launch also marked the first human spaceflight from U.S. soil in nearly nine years.As Dragon get closer to landing both astronauts will be busy preparing for splashdown.“Once we wake up, we will eat, fluid load, go through suit up, and then work our way into the entry portion of the flight and then the deorbit burn, then entry.