SpaceX: Elon Musk’s Dragon Capsule Returns to Earth after pioneering NASA mission.
SpaceX’s Dragon Capsule – and the Nasa Crew-1 mission. It is carrying traveled to the International Space Station and returned safely to Earth.
Above all, The first official crew to have made that journey in a SpaceX craft. As the name suggests, though astronauts had made the same trip in the final test.
It was also the first Nasa nighttime landing since the Apollo 8 mission in 1968. By and large, difficult conditions in recent days are forcing the original arrival times to be delayed.
SpaceX Elon Musk’s Dragon Capsule Returns to Earth
It was the first official crew to make this voyage aboard the SpaceX. As the name suggests, the astronauts had made the same voyage in the final test.
The Dragon Capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3am, completing the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk’s company.
It was a quick trip home that only took 6 and a half hours.
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Three American and one Japanese astronaut flew from Nassan’s Kennedy Space Center in the same capsule they launched in November – called Endurance.
Firstly, SpaceX trained to return at night, even taking out the latest cargo capsule from the Gulf of Mexico in the dark. Secondly, Infrared cameras monitored the capsule as it re-entered the atmosphere; He looked like a bright star flying in the night sky. The four main parachutes were spreading before the pour, which was also visible in the infrared.
Apollo 8 – NASA’s first flight to the moon with astronauts – ended on December 27, 1968, with dawn in the Pacific Ocean near Hawaii. Eight years later, the Soviet capsule of two astronauts ended up in a dark, partially frozen lake in Kazakhstan, flew on a stormy road.
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It was to shoot the night crew until Sunday. Despite the first hour, the Coast Guard began to implement an 11-mile (18-mile) protection zone around the wheeled Dragon capsule.
The Bottom Line
The tech billionaire bought a three-day flight that would orbit the space station at a distance of 75 miles (120 kilometers). He will fly with the winners of the competition and a charity dedicated to carrying out the mission with a medical assistant from St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital.
SpaceX’s next astronaut launch for Nasa will take place in October.
After retiring in 2011, the NASA car fleet turned to private companies to service the space station.
SpaceX began delivery in 2012 and launched its first crew last May, ending its confidence in Russia in NASA astronaut transport.
Boeing is expected to launch the astronauts by early next year.
