It’s not a shooting star; it’s a spaceship.
The return of SpaceX’s Crew-3 astronaut project to Earth early Friday, May 6, captured in epic images as the team finished six months on the International Space Station.
NASA and SpaceX, which provided Crew-3’s Dragon capsule for the agency, captured the spacecraft’s fluted top in the environment in the minutes before the successful splash at 00:43 EDT (04:43 GMT), 176 days after their project. Started.
These epic images show a meteorite-like vehicle moving around with four other people on board: Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron, all from NASA, and Matthias Maurer from the European Space Agency (ESA).
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NASA photographer Aubrey Gemignani captured the re-entry of the Dragon capsule in photos.
Above, a view of the capsule as it dives into the environment in the early hours of Friday.
Below is a wider view of SpaceX’s Crew-3 Dragon with the lighting fixtures of the visual recovery ships on the back of the image, adding what appears to be a resplendent projector at night on the right rear.
The image of the Endurance spacecraft returning in Mexico, Florida and nearby areas generates social media actions from other people who gave up early (or stayed up late) to watch the show.
Dragon Rentrée Endurance capsule noted from southeastern Mexico (Villahermosa, Tabasco) May #SpaceX #Dragon #ISS #NASA #Space pic. twitter. com/eLYiW289XV6, 2022
Standing on the shores of Clearwater Beach, I watched Crew Dragon and his team of 4 cross the afternoon sky on their return journey. It’s time to return to Space Coast for a launch ?May #Crew3 @SpaceX @NASA pic. twitter . com/b1KiuoC9YZ6, 2022
Minutes after the splash, the four astronauts gave an enthusiastic “Hello” to Earth after the culprits of the recovery arrived at the spacecraft.
Although it normally takes about a day on our planet to complete each day in space, astronauts deserve to be able to resume many of their general activities (such as showering, driving, and exercising) in just a few weeks.
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Elizabeth Howell, Ph. D. , has been editor of Space. com since 2012. As a proud trekkie and Canadian, she tackles topics such as area flying, diversity, science fiction, astronomy, and games for others to explore the universe. the site’s reports include two manned area flight launches from Kazakhstan and built-in reports from a simulated Mars project in Utah. He holds a M. Sc. doctorat. et in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota and a Bachelor of Science in Journalism from Carleton University in Canada. His latest book, NASA’s Moments of Leadership, is co-authored with astronaut Dave Williams. Elizabeth first became interested in the area after watching the movie Apollo Thirteen in 1996, and she still needs to be an astronaut one day.
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