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SpaceX returns 4 astronauts to Earth; rare night splashdown

Published by Hurriyet on Sun, 05/02/2021 - 09:12

SpaceX returned four astronauts from the International Space Station on May 2, making the first U.S. crew splashdown in darkness since the Apollo 8 moonshot.

The Dragon capsule parachuted into the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Panama City, Florida, just before 3 a.m., ending the second astronaut flight for Elon Musk's company.

First Private Astronauts Postponed Their Flight with Space X Due to the Bad Weather Conditions

Published by Novinite on Thu, 05/28/2020 - 16:24

SpaceX and NASA will have to wait at least a few more days for their historic spaceflight.   Launch officials announced at4:17 p.m. Wednesday that rough weather would prevent a SpaceX rocket and capsule from taking off from a Florida launch pad, carrying NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on the first crewed spaceflight to take off from US soil in nearly a decade.