Shirley Moore 04 August 2020 03:35 At first when I was watching SpaceX hit the water, I thought that all the boats were part of the crew, then I realize they are spectators. I stayed up all night making sure they were ok, coming home. Shirley Reply At first when I was watching SpaceX hit the water, I thought that all the boats were part of the crew, then I realize they are spectators. I stayed up all night making sure they were ok, coming home. Shirley Get breaking space news and the latest updates on rocket launches, sky watching events and more! Thank you for signing up to Space. You will receive a verification email shortly. There was a problem. Please refresh the page and try again. No spam, we promise. You can unsubscribe at any time and we’ll never share your details without your permission. “It was truly our honour and privilege,” Hurley radioed back. Just hours earlier, while still in space, Hurley said the experience is one he won’t soon forget. Boeing isn’t ready to fly its first crewed mission, by the way: The company must first refly an unscrewed test mission to the ISS with its CST-100 Starliner capsule. Starliner’s first attempt at this milestone, in December 2019, went awry when the capsule suffered a glitch with its onboard timing system and ended up stranded in the wrong orbit to rendezvous with the station. Crew Dragon had seven potential splashdown sites in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean to choose from. A spot off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, won the honor. The weather held out nicely, giving the astronauts calm waters to land in. Gwynne Shotwell, the president of SpaceX, added: “Today is a great day. We should celebrate what we all accomplished here, bringing Bob and Doug back, but we should also think about this as a springboard to doing even harder things with the Artemis programme. And then, of course, moving on to Mars.” Once Dragon enters the atmosphere, it’ll deploy its parachutes, which will slow it until it’s traveling at a speed of just around 15 mph before it splashes down. The reason it requires such a long trip from time of departure to when it lands in the ocean is that it needs to slow down from a starting speed of around 17,500 mph when it departs the ISS. SpaceX notched this milestone with Demo-1, its uncrewed station test flight, in March 2019. So today’s parachute-aided splashdown was the second ever for a Crew Dragon capsule returning from space. (The cargo version of Dragon, which flies robotic resupply missions to the orbiting lab under a separate NASA contract, has 21 ocean landings of its own under its belt.) A SpaceX recovery ship named GO Navigator was on location to retrieve the capsule, crew and parachutes. In a news conference on Friday, Behnken and Hurley said they would have bags ready in case they experienced seasickness while waiting for pickup by the recovery crew. The astronauts reported they were doing well after splashdown and discussed some of the activities they’d undertaken while returning to Earth. The leisurely ride, they said, was broken up by a few prank calls back to Earth via satellite phone — and they asked Elon Musk, SpaceX CEO, to foot the bill. Be respectful, keep it civil and stay on topic. We delete comments that violate our policy, which we encourage you to read. Discussion threads can be closed at any time at our discretion. Join our Space Forums to keep talking space on the latest missions, night sky and more! And if you have a news tip, correction or comment, let us know at: [email protected]. A private American astronaut taxi has now broken that stranglehold, as NASA long intended. In 2010, the space agency began funding the development of a variety of homegrown commercial spacecraft. SpaceX and Boeing emerged as the winners of this competition in 2014, each scoring multibillion-dollar contracts to finish work on their spaceflight systems and fly at least six operational crewed missions to and from the ISS for NASA. “The mission’s looking beautiful; it’s very clean,” Benji Reed, director of crew mission management at SpaceX, said during a news conference on July 29. “The data is looking great, but we want to watch all of this data and learn from it as we come back.” The SpaceX recovery ship GO Navigator met Endeavour and hoisted the capsule aboard shortly after splashdown. After a series of checkouts, recovery teams opened Endeavour’s hatch at 3:59 p.m. EDT (1959 GMT) and extracted the two astronauts about 10 minutes later. Medical personnel can now begin assessing Behknen and Hurley, making sure the two spaceflyers are in good shape after their journey home from orbit. “It’s hard to put into words just what it was like to be a part of this expedition — Expedition 63,” Hurley said during a farewell ceremony aboard the space station on Saturday (Aug. 1), the day Endeavour undocked and began its journey home. “It’ll be kind of a memory that will last a lifetime for me.” “That’s really an equally challenging problem, from a laws-of-physics standpoint,” said Reisman, who worked for SpaceX from 2011 to 2018, serving as director of crew operations during the latter part of that run. He remains a consultant for Elon Musk’s company but stressed that his views are his own; he does not speak for SpaceX. Demo-2, an end-to-end demonstration of SpaceX’s system, is the last big box that the company needs to check before starting those contracted flights. And there’s still some work to do in this regard, even though Endeavour has returned safely to Earth. Bibliography Amanda Kooser 1970, SpaceX Crew Dragon splashdown: See NASA astronauts return to …, Viewed 6 August 2020, <https://www.cnet.com/news/spacex-crew-dragon-splashdown-see-nasa-astronauts-return-to-earth/>. Nasa SpaceX crew return: Dragon capsule splashes down 1970, Viewed 6 August 2020, <https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53621102>. SpaceX Crew Dragon makes historic 1st splashdown to return … 1970, Viewed 6 August 2020, <https://www.space.com/spacex-crew-dragon-demo-2-splashdown.html>. Watch SpaceX’s Crew Dragon splash down in the Atlantic Ocean … 1970, Viewed 6 August 2020, <https://techcrunch.com/2020/08/02/watch-spacexs-crew-dragon-splash-down-in-the-atlantic-ocean-live-as-astronauts-return-to-earth/>. 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