SpaceX manned spacecraft Dragon undocks from ISS to head home

LOS ANGELES -- NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) on Monday and is on the way back to Earth, according to NASA.

The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the ISS at 11:20 am Monday Eastern Time to begin the journey home.

The spacecraft is scheduled to splash down off the coast of Florida at approximately 5:50 am Tuesday Eastern Time, wrapping up the Crew-7's months-long science expedition aboard the ISS.

The four-member crew consists of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. The mission was launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug 26 last year.