Ax-1's SpaceX Dragon capsule
named Endeavour, undocked from the orbiting lab today (April 24) at 9:10 p.m. EDT (1310 GMT on April 25)
Endeavour and its four
passengers will splash down off the Florida coast on Monday (April 25) at 1:06 p.m. EDT, if all goes according to plan.
Mother Nature delayed the
capsule's departure from the station several times Ax-1 was supposed to undock on April 19 and arrive on Earth April 20
Bad weather in the splashdown
zone pushed things back about 12 hours And these poor conditions persisted, causing additional delays
Endeavour and the Ax-1 crew
launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on April 8 and arrived at the orbiting lab on April 9, becoming the first-ever all-private crewed mission to visit the station.
The mission was organized by
Houston company Axiom Space and is led by López-Alegría, a former NASA astronaut who now serves as Axiom's vice president of business development.