Four astronauts are taking the red-eye home to Earth on Saturday.
Saturday evening, a crew of four — three NASA astronauts and one from Japan’s space agency — will push off from the International Space Station in a capsule built by SpaceX. The astronauts will circle the planet a number of times over the hours that follow until they splash down early Sunday morning along Florida’s Gulf of Mexico coast.
NASA has not conducted a nighttime splash down like this since 1968, when Apollo 8, the first mission to send astronauts around the moon, returned to Earth.
Q: When are the astronauts leaving and how can I watch?
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