[Launch Alert] Possible Reentry Viewing Opportunity (Update)

[Launch Alert]

The following is an update from Rick Baldridge regarding tonight's Dragon reentry and landing:

"My crude calculations based on several previous CRS and Crew Dragon reentries, but CRS-32 Dragon WILL be visible from a large swath of Northern California during reentry tonight. For the SF Bay area, just look to the West at 10:37pm PDT when Dragon is 8 minutes until splashdown. The plasma wake does fade significantly by 7 minutes before splashdown (10:38pm), so it may be pretty faint by the time it passes over the Vandenberg area. The LA Basin likely won't see anything at all, but I could be wrong."

Meanwhile, Launch Alert reader Brad Templeton reported the sources he found gave the splashdown time as 1:45 a.m. on May 25th. Here referred me to the following web page:

https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/05/23/nasa-coverage-is-live-as-spacex-dragon-prepares-to-undock/

As of 8:07 p.m. PDT, an official public source indicates the landing is in fact scheduled for about 10:45 p.m. PDT.