Crew-1 Marks the End of the Longest Mission on the ISS With a Splashdown 3 May 2021, 16:02 UTC ·
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Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, as well as Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Soichi Noguchi, landed in a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Panama City, Florida at 2:56 a.m. EDT. The spacecraft and astronauts were successfully recovered by crews on SpaceX rescue vessels.
NASA s SpaceX Crew-1 took off on a Falcon 9 rocket from the agency s Kennedy Space Center in Florida last year on November 15th. The next day, the crew Dragon Resilience was docking to the Harmony module s forward port of the space station.
NASA`s Space X Dragon Crew-1 astronauts, after surviving 167 days in space, astronauts returned safely to Earth on Sunday (May 2) morning. SpaceX`s Crew Dragon splashed down safely to Earth in a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Panama City, Florida.
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WASHINGTON, May 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ NASA s SpaceX Crew-1 astronauts will answer questions at 3:45 p.m. EDT Thursday, May 6, about their historic mission on the International Space Station and return to Earth. The news conference will air live on NASA Television, the NASA app, and the agency s website.
NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker, along with Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Soichi Noguchi, will participate in the first media event following their mission and splashdown.
This will be a virtual event with no media present, due to the safety restrictions related to the ongoing coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Reporters who wish to participate by telephone must call the newsroom at NASA s Johnson Space Center in Houston at 281-483-5111 to RSVP no later than 5 p.m. Wednesday, May 5. Those following the briefing on social media may ask questions using the hashtag #AskNASA.
SpaceX just returned its first full astronaut crew to Earth, completing the longest human spaceflight any US vehicle has ever flown.
The astronauts of the Crew-1 mission Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins of NASA, and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) felt the pull of Earth s gravity for the first time in six months as their Crew Dragon spaceship tore through the atmosphere early Sunday. The spaceship, which they ve named Resilience, protected them as its speed superheated the air around it to a 3,500-degree-Fahrenheit plasma.
A few miles above the ocean, four parachutes ballooned from the gumdrop-shaped capsule, jerking it into a slower fall. They gently lowered Resilience to a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico at 2:57 a.m. ET. The waves were calm and the weather was clear.