The capsule has been docked at the space station since May 31, allowing Hurley and Behnken to chip in with spacewalks and experiments. After splashdown, it will take an hour or so before the capsule is hauled by crane onto a SpaceX recovery ship, where the hatch will be opened and the astronauts will get out. The plan is for the Dragon to undock from the space station on Saturday, a day before splashdown. “We won’t leave the space station without some good landing opportunities in front of us, good splashdown weather,” Behnken told reporters. There’s more chow and I know the space station program’s got more work that we can do.”

Source: International New York Times July 31, 2020 18:33 UTC