SpaceX Crew Dragon Return / Weekend Planets and Meteors

Tomorrow NASA is set to bring home the astronauts who launched on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon earlier this year. Reentry is a critical mission event with lots of inherent risk due to the extreme speeds, high temperatures and precise maneuvering requirements.

You can watch the reentry live via NASA’s website, which also has lots of additional information about the mission:

NASA to Provide Coverage of Astronauts' Return from Space Station

NASA will provide live coverage of activities leading up to, during, and following the return of the agency's SpaceX Demo-2 test flight with the agency's astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley from the International Space Station.

You can catch Jupiter, Saturn, the Moon and a few meteors this weekend! Check out Sky & Telescope’s weekly update to learn how:

This Week's Sky at a Glance, July 31 - August 8 - Sky & Telescope

Comet NEOWISE was down to magnitude 5.0 or 5.5 by July 30th and fading by about a half-magnitude a day as expected. Finder chart through 0:00 August 5th UT, for the serious. FRIDAY, JULY 31 ■ This evening the waxing gibbous Moon is lined up with Jupiter and Saturn to its left, as shown below.

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