FLORIDA: The first project to send NASA astronauts into orbit on a spacecraft returned to Earth on Sunday with the splash of a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule in the Gulf of Mexico.
“On behalf of the SpaceX and NASA teams, welcome to Planet Earth and thank you for piloting SpaceX,” said Mike Heiman, a senior member of SpaceX’s operational team, astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken.
The landing closed a 64-day project to the International Space Station to the first Dragon SpaceX to bring in a crew. The reusable spacecraft has been named Endeavour in homage to ancient spacecraft.
In May, the launch of spaceX’s Falcon nine rocket made history, and today’s return to Earth did as well: it is the first time since 1nine75 that a NASA manned spacecraft returns to Earth at sea and the first landing in the Gulf area. Mexico.
NASA and SpaceX have selected a site off Pensacola in Panhandle in Florida, which applicants further east, to stay away from Tropical Storm Isaias’ trail along Florida’s east coast.
THE return of NASA astronauts to Earth on Sunday is an impressive retro-style landing, with its capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to close an unprecedented control flight from Elon Musk’s SpaceX company.
It’s the first landing of American astronauts in forty-five years. Also with the first spacecraft built and operated commercially to send other people to and from orbit.
The return paves the way for some other launch of the SpaceX team next month and imaginable tourist flights next year.
Test pilots Doug Hurley and Bob Behn sent the SpaceX Dragon capsule to Earth less than a day after leaving the International Space Station and two months after taking off from Florida.
The capsule parachuted into the calm waters of the Gulf about 40 miles from Pensacola, many miles from Tropical Storm Isaiah hitting Florida’s Atlantic coast.
“Welcome back to Planet Earth and thank you for piloting SpaceX,” Mission Control from SpaceX headquarters.
“Indeed, it was our honor and privilege, ” replied Hurley.
The astronauts return to the fast, rugged and hot Endeavour capsule, at least outdoors.
The ship went from an orbital howling speed of 28,000 km/h (17,500 mph) to 560 km/h (350 mph) of atmospheric re-entry and, despite everything, projections of 24 km/h (15 mph).
The maximum descent warming was 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,900 degrees Celsius). Expected upper G-forces were felt through the crew: 4 to five times Earth’s gravity force.
“Endeavour has it loud and clear,” Hurley said after a brief failure in communication through the heat of atmospheric input.
Less than an hour after the splash, the 15-foot capsule burned and blistered aboard a SpaceX recovery shipment with more than 40 staff members, adding doctors and nurses. To ensure the protection of astronauts returning to the pandemic, the recovery team quarantined for two weeks and performed coronavirus tests.
Opening the delayed hatch by additional controls for poisonous rocket vapors. After the medical examinations, the astronauts were to return to Houston for a meeting with their wives and children.
The last time NASA astronauts returned from the area to the water on July 24, 1975, in the Pacific, the scene of maximum splashes, to complete a joint American-Soviet project known as Apollo-Soyuz. Mercury and Gemini crews from the early to mid-1960s parachuted into the Atlantic, while most of the last Apollo pills hit the Pacific.
The only Russian “amerizaje” took place in 1976 in a partially frozen lake in the midst of a snowstorm following an aborted project “the painful recovery took hours.
SpaceX made history with this mission, which possibly ran 30 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. It was the first time a personal company put others into orbit and also the first launch of a NASA astronaut in nearly a decade. Hurley has finished the cycle, as the pilot of NASA’s last-time area flight comes and goes in 2011 and is the commander of this areaX flight.
Musk monitored the descent and splashes from SpaceX Mission Control in Hawthorne, California.
President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence, who saw the launch in Florida, sent their congratulations on Twitter.
“It’s wonderful that NASA astronauts are returning to Earth after a very successful two-month mission. Thank you all!” Tweeted Trump.
NASA turned to SpaceX and Boeing to make pills and send astronauts to and from the area station, following the removal of the ferries. Until Hurley and Behnken entered orbit, NASA astronauts relied on Russian rockets. SpaceX had already reveled in sending goods to the area station, taking those pills back to a Pacific landing.
“This is the next era of manned spaceflight where NASA becomes the customer,” said NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine of the Johnson Space Center in Houston a while before the astronauts returned.
SpaceX wants six weeks for the capsule before launching the next team last September. This next four-astronaut project will spend six full months aboard the area station.
Hurley and Behnken’s capsule will be renewed for their flight next spring. A Houston-based company run by a former NASA-based company partnered with SpaceX to send 3 consumers to the area station in the fall of 2021.
Boeing plans to launch its first team until next year. The company encountered major software disruption when it introduced its Starliner capsule, with no one on board, last year.
Your pills will land in the desert of the southwestern United States.
In defeating Boeing, SpaceX claimed a small American flag left at the area station through Hurley and the rest of the last crew back and forth. The flag, which also waved on the first round-trip flight, was thoroughly packed aboard the Dragon for the return home.
Also on board: a toy dinosaur called Tremor, sent through the children of astronauts.
The boys recorded a wake-up call for their parents on Sunday morning, urging them to “get up and shine” and “we can’t wait to see you.”
“Don’t worry, you can sleep tomorrow,” said Behnken’s 6-year-old son, Who promised a puppy after the flight. “Hurry home so we can pick up my dog.”
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