Retrieving the astronauts from the ocean NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover and Michael Hopkins, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, have been at the ISS since November. From left, astronauts Shannon Walker, Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Soichi Noguchi returned to Earth on May 2 after six months in space. (Image credit: NASA/The Associated Press) They were meant to return to Earth on April 28, but had to reschedule due to bad weather. Instead, they decided to leave the ISS late Saturday night and began heading toward Earth’s atmosphere. Infrared cameras tracked the astronauts’ capsule as it re-entered the atmosphere, looking like a bright star streaking through the night sky.
SpaceX splashdown: Four astronauts to return from record-breaking mission
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule soared back from outer space and made a parachute landing in the Gulf of Mexico, returning four astronauts from a record-setting mission to the International Space Station.
Posted: May 3, 2021 2:46 PM
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Four astronauts are on their way home from the International Space Station aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule, ending their five-month mission to the orbiting laboratory. The astronauts set a record for the longest time in space by a crew that launched aboard an American-built spacecraft.
On Saturday evening, the crew climbed aboard their spacecraft, which had remained fixed to the space station s docking ports since the astronauts arrived in November. They undocked from the ISS at 8:37 pm ET, and will spend the night aboard their capsule as it freeflies through orbit. The spacecraft fire up its on-board engines to start safely descending back into the Earth s t
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SpaceX’s Crew-1 astronauts make “flawless” nighttime splashdown in Gulf of Mexico
A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule soared back from outer space Sunday morning and made a parachute landing in the Gulf of Mexico, returning four astronauts from a record-setting mission to the International Space Station.
The astronauts NASA’s Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker, and Soichi Noguchi, an astronaut with Japan’s space agency had boarded their Crew Dragon capsule Friday afternoon, and they spent all night aboard the 13-foot-wide, fully autonomous capsule as it conducted a series of engine burns and maneuvers to prepare itself for reentry.