Watch SpaceX's Crew-7 astronaut return to Earth on March 12 in this free livestream

The four astronauts of SpaceX's Crew-7 mission will return to Earth early Tuesday (March 12), and you can watch their homecoming live.

Crew-7's Dragon capsule, named Endurance, lifted off from the International Space Station on Monday (March 11) after the astronauts spent 6.5 months in the orbiting lab. If all goes according to plan, the spacecraft will splash down on the Florida coast around 5:50 a.m. EDT (0950 GMT) on Tuesday.

You can watch the reentry and recovery operations here on Space.com, courtesy of NASA TV. Coverage will begin at 4:30 am EDT (0830 GMT).

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A white space capsule approaches the International Space Station, with some clouds over the ocean in the background

SpaceX's Dragon Endurance shuttle approaches the International Space Station for docking on August 27, 2023, carrying four Crew-7 astronauts. (Image: NASA)

Crew-7 consists of NASA astronaut Jasmine Mokbeli, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency, Satoshi Furukawa of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, and cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov with Russia's space agency Roscosmos.

The mission was launched to the ISS on August 26, 2023 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and arrived at the orbital complex a day later. The liftoff launched the first spacewalks for Mokbeli and Borisov, and the second for Mogensen and Furukawa.

The Crew-7 quartet, four astronauts from SpaceX's Crew-8 mission, briefly overlapped with their successors when they arrived at the ISS last Tuesday (March 5).

As those mission names suggest, SpaceX has now launched eight operational spaceflights to the ISS for NASA (and one crewed test flight to the orbiting laboratory). The agency selected SpaceX for the job in September 2014.

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Aerospace giant Boeing received the commercial group contract, but has yet to fly a space shuttle for NASA. However, that should change soon: The first space flight of Boeing's Starliner capsule is scheduled for launch in early May.

The mission, called Crew Flight Test, will send two astronauts to the ISS for a stay of about 10 days.

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Watch SpaceX's Crew-7 astronaut return to Earth on March 12 in this free livestream

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