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A Cargo Dragon capsule backs away from the International Space station Thursday, heading for splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico. Credit: Thomas Pesquet/ESA/NASA
Wrapping up a 36-day mission to the International Space Station, a SpaceX Cargo Dragon capsule splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico Friday night with biomedical experiments, spacewalk equipment, and other hardware returning from orbit.
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By Natasha Turak, CNBC •
Updated 37 mins ago
Joe Skipper | Reuters
The four astronauts aboard the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule have safely returned to earth, splashing down in parachutes landing in the Gulf of Mexico after a record-setting mission to the International Space Station. The astronauts spent more than five months in space, the longest-ever duration for a crew launched in an American-built spacecraft.
NASA s Shannon Walker, Mike Hopkins, and Victor Glover and Japan s Soichi Noguchi reached the space station via the Dragon capsule, Resilience, last November.
After undocking from the space station at 8:35 p.m. Saturday, the astronauts traveled through the atmosphere and touched down in Mexico s Gulf near Panama City, Florida, via parachutes at about 2:57 a.m. ET on Sunday. They exited the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft less than an hour after landing.
By Michael Sheetz, CNBC •
Updated on May 2, 2021 at 6:43 am
Bill Ingalls | NASA | Getty Images
The astronauts of NASA and SpaceX s Crew-1 mission spent more than five months in space for the Crew-1 mission, the longest-ever duration for a crew launched in an American-built spacecraft.
NASA s Shannon Walker, Mike Hopkins, and Victor Glover and Japan s Soichi Noguchi first reached the International Space Station via the Dragon capsule, Resilience, last November.
The astronauts spent more than five months in space, the longest-ever duration for a crew launched in an American-built spacecraft.
The four astronauts aboard SpaceX s Crew Dragon capsule Resilience safely returned to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in parachutes landing in the Gulf of Mexico after a record-setting mission to the International Space Station.