Best new movies to stream on Netflix, Hulu, Prime Video, HBO Max, and more The crew are in for an exhilarating ride through Earth’s atmosphere before the spacecraft’s parachutes deploy to dramatically reduce its speed prior to splashdown. On his own trip home in 2020 in what was the Crew Dragon’s first-ever crewed descent from orbit, NASA astronaut Bob Behnken later described the unique experience. “As we descended through the atmosphere, the thrusters were firing almost continuously,” Behnken recounted. “It doesn’t sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmosphere.” The mission — the fourth private ISS visit organized by Texas-based Axiom Space — involved the most research and science-related activities to date, with the four crew members working on around 60 scientific studies and activities supplied by more than 30 countries. It’s hoped that the results from their efforts will enhance global knowledge in human research, Earth observation, as well as life, biological, and material sciences. How to watch The Crew Dragon and its four occupants are expected to splash down off the coast of California at about 5:30 a.m. ET (2:30 a.m. PT) on Tuesday, July 15. Axiom Space will live stream the final moments of the homecoming. You can watch the webcast via the video player embedded at the top of this page, or via Axiom Space’s YouTube channel, which will carry the same feed. Besides footage from an array of cameras, you’ll also get to hear the live audio communications between the Ax-4 crew and Mission Control.