SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts come home with rare pre-dawn splashdown By William Harwood
May 2, 2021 / 6:56 AM / CBS News
Four astronauts strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged to a fiery pre-dawn splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, closing out the first operational flight of SpaceX s futuristic touch-screen ferry ship.
Crew-1 commander Michael Hopkins, along with NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi, disconnected from the space-facing port of the station s forward Harmony module at 8:35 p.m. EDT Saturday.
That set up only the second piloted water landing for NASA s post-shuttle commercial crew program and just the third night splashdown in space history the first in nearly 45 years.
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(Left to right) Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Mike Hopkins, and Soichi Noguchi, prior to disembarking the SpaceX Crew Dragon Resilience capsule after splashdown. Photo: NASA/Bill Ingalls.
Four astronauts strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, undocked from the International Space Station and plunged to a fiery pre-dawn splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico Sunday, closing out the first operational flight of SpaceX’s futuristic touch-screen ferry ship.
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Sex in Space: Why Do Astronauts Keep It on Hush-Hush and Will It Become New Normal?
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Sex in space may sound romantic but it s not as easy as it may seem: there are lots of factors which can reduce one s drive, starting with astronauts fairly busy work schedule and difficulties of accepting a match and ending with Newton s third law of motion in conditions of microgravity.
The sexual life in humans in space is by no means a frivolous issue, given that long-duration missions onboard the International Space Station can last for months, let alone projected flights to the Moon or Mars. If such matters of personal hygiene and social ritual for space crews have been considered in detail, why not human sexual activity? Astronauts, when queried, remain tightlipped about it. Is sexual intercourse possible in space?