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Crew Dragon Endeavour Departs the Space Station

The Crew Dragon Endeavour fires a thruster to start backing away from the International Space Station on Aug. 1, 2020.
The spacecraft is scheduled to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 2.

Space Station Commander Chris Cassidy captured this photo of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour firing one of its thrusters to back away from the International Space Station on Aug. 1, 2020. Carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley, Endeavour is scheduled to splash down in the Gulf of Mexico on Aug. 2. The pair launched to the space station on May 30, 2020, in the first commercially built spacecraft to carry people into orbit.

Photo: NASA/Chris Cassidy