Here’s why you may see a fireball and hear a sonic boom tonight in South Mississippi
Residents of South Mississippi may see a fireball and hear a sonic boom Monday night as four astronauts aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavor spacecraft return to Earth.
The module undocked from the International Space Station at 1:05 p.m. Monday.
The crew was scheduled to splash down off the Florida coast at 9:33 p[.m. Central Time, according to NASA.
“Space X has changed the splash-down location of the Dragon Crew capsule to the Florida Panhandle well offshore of Pensacola,” Brad Panovich, chief meteorologist at WCNC-TV Weather, posted on social media. “The Nor’easter made them switch which side of Florida to land,” he said.
Brian Lamar, public affairs officer for the Naval Construction Battalion Center in Gulfport, posted on social media that two booms were heard in the last couple of weeks over South Mississippi. His neighbors asked whether something happening at the Seabee base caused the boom.
“It hasn’t been us either time,” he said.
The four astronauts aboard — Crew-2 commander Shane Kimbrough and pilot Megan McArthur of NASA, and mission Specialists Aki Hoshide from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Thomas Pesquet fromthe European Space Agency, have been at the International Space Station since April 24.
NASA will provide live coverage until Endeavour splashes down and the Crew-2 astronauts are recovered from the Gulf of Mexico. It can be seen on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency’s website.
