SpaceX Crew Returns To Earth In Successful Splashdown
It’s home, sweet home for NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken. Their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule made a successful splashdown landing in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday afternoon. It was…
GULF OF MEXICO – AUGUST 2: In this handout image provided by NASA, SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule spacecraft, with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley onboard, lands in the Gulf of Mexico after completing the Demo-2 mission to the International Space Station on August 2, 2020 off the coast of Pensacola, Florida. The Demo-2 mission is the first launch with astronauts of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency’s Commercial Crew Program. The test flight serves as an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceXs crew transportation system. Behnken and Hurley launched at 3:22 p.m. EDT on Saturday, May 30, from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. A new era of human spaceflight is set to begin as American astronauts once again launch on an American rocket from American soil to low-Earth orbit for the first time since the conclusion of the Space Shuttle Program in 2011. (Photo by Bill Ingalls/NASA via Getty Images)
It's home, sweet home for NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Robert Behnken. Their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule made a successful splashdown landing in the Gulf of Mexico yesterday afternoon. It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years. Within 30 minutes, the recovery ship came to pick them up and brought them back to American soil. It also ended the first manned space flight by a private company. They blasted off back in May for the International Space Station. Another SpaceX crew will launch as early as next month. Welcome home!
