2 days agoAccessing the two SpaceX pilots U.S. is returning as leader of space flights.
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)SpaceX's space shuttle Crew Dragon transporting NASA astronauts Robert Behken and Douglas Hurley landed in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, marking a safe end to a two-month historic mission and paving the way for the United States to become a world leader on human space flight again. [...]
Crew Auto Dragon shot his engines and plunged safely into Earth's thick atmosphere on Sunday afternoon before setting parachutes and slowing the vehicle down to reach its target, landing on the coast of Florida.
Mission control sent a funny welcome to astronauts: “Thank you for flying SpaceX”.
The trip became more dramatic by a two-day stalemate with mother's nature: The Tropical storm Isa was heading east. But the waters in the Gulf of Mexico remained quite calm for the astronaut capsule to be stopped near Pensacola.
A giant recovery ship, GO Navigator, will now meet the ship Dragon Crew and remove it from the water. Doctors are in place for any emergency, and Hurley and Behken will soon be fried by helicopter at Sea Station Pensacola. From there, astronauts will board a NASA plane that will transfer them to Johnson Center Center in Houston, NASA's official home base for astronauts.
