SpaceX's Crew-7 returned to Earth safely Tuesday morning, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Fla.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, the European Space Agency's Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov splashed down at 5:47 a.m. EDT.
The parachute system on the Dragon worked to perfection with all four deploying at about 18,000 feet as the spacecraft fell back to the Earth. A recovery ship with a fast boat team completed the work to pluck the capsule out of the water onto the main deck of the ship.
The crew left the International Space Station in the Dragon Space capsule Monday morning.
After undocking from the ISS, the Dragon completed a deorbiting burn, where it flew over southwest Nebraska, Kansas, northeastern Oklahoma, central Arkansas and northeastern Texas and then across Mississippi and Alabama on its way to the Gulf of Mexico.
Private ownership leads the way,,, always.
ReplyDeleteFreakin' awesome.
ReplyDeleteYep. Bad Elon Musk has sent 50 people into orbit now. And Boeing got 50% more money to do the same and still is on the ground.
ReplyDeleteLet's be absolutely fair though, that 50% of lots of billions of course did not end up being used to build a space ship: it was sent back to congress to be used as (re)election 'contributions' for those who gave 50% more money to Boeing.
Why do you thing the left hates Musk so much? No money coming in for the left's almighty (re)election 'contributions'. (Their hatred has nothing to do with Musk supporting the constitution, hey, for enough money even democrats would support free speech. )