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The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule has returned safely to Earth.
The spacecraft made a parachute-assisted splashdown at 0333 GMT Tuesday off the coast of Florida with four astronauts on board. It had undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 1905 GMT Monday.
The so-called “Crew-2” consists of French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur.
“The Crew-2 astronauts and Dragon spent 199 days in orbit, the first US spacecraft to reach that milestone,” SpaceX tweeted. The toilet on board the “Crew Dragon” of Elon Musk’s SpaceX is broken, meaning that the four astronauts, who have been on the ISS since April, had to wear diapers during their trip home.
This is “suboptimal,” McArthur had said at an earlier press conference. “But in spaceflight there are a lot of little challenges and we’re prepared to deal with that.” The undocking had originally been planned for Sunday, but was postponed at short notice until Monday due to bad weather conditions.
New York
The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour capsule has returned safely to Earth.
The spacecraft made a parachute-assisted splashdown at 0333 GMT Tuesday off the coast of Florida with four astronauts on board. It had undocked from the International Space Station (ISS) at 1905 GMT Monday.
The so-called “Crew-2” consists of French ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and NASA astronauts Shane Kimbrough and Megan McArthur.
“The Crew-2 astronauts and Dragon spent 199 days in orbit, the first US spacecraft to reach that milestone,” SpaceX tweeted. The toilet on board the “Crew Dragon” of Elon Musk’s SpaceX is broken, meaning that the four astronauts, who have been on the ISS since April, had to wear diapers during their trip home.
This is “suboptimal,” McArthur had said at an earlier press conference. “But in spaceflight there are a lot of little challenges and we’re prepared to deal with that.” The undocking had originally been planned for Sunday, but was postponed at short notice until Monday due to bad weather conditions.
