Tech
SpaceX: NASA’s Crew-2 returns to earth in safe water landing
After 200 days aboard the International Space Station, NASA’s Crew-2 Mission has completed a safe water landing
Astronauts from NASA, France and Japan splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico just moments ago.
Recovery personnel are flocking to the capsule, including someone on a jet ski who will climb aboard the capsule’s exterior.
The first two chutes were thrown out, and the remaini
On board the autonomous spacecraft were two NASA astronauts, commander Shane Kimbrough and pilot Megan McArthur. They were accompanied by astronauts Thomas Pesquet of France and Akihiko Hoshide of Japan.ng four were deployed as the mission began its landing.
The splashdown happened in the darkness a few miles off the coast of Florida.
The return comes at a busy time for human spaceflight.
On Wednesday, SpaceX is scheduled to launch another quartet of astronauts to the space station — a mission that had been scheduled to lift off last week but was delayed because of weather and an astronaut’s illness.
NASA did not say which astronaut got sick or what the illness was, other than confirming that it was not COVID-19.