Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese kite and a Russian cosmonaut fell back to the earth on Saturday, splash safely in the Pacific, west of San Diego, to close a five-month mission to space.
Pilot Nichole Ayers, the Japanese astronaut Takuya Oneishi and Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon’s Crew Dragon’s Crew Dragon’s Crew Dragon Endurance. Baking the International Space Station.
A helicopter view of the endurance of the crew, still 2,600 feet up, falling to Splashdown Saturday off the coast of South California near San Diego. / Credit: SpaceX
SpaceX support teams that were deployed near the landing site quickly came together on the capsule to set up the vessel for a lift on the deck of a repair ship.
After the opening of the Liège, the station flyers were helped from the spacecraft for first medical checks, while after 148 days they started to adapt to the unknown migration of gravity. All four lay people healthy and in good mood.
There was a helicopter to fly all four back to the coast, where a NASA plane waited to fly them back to the Johnson Space Center in Houston.
Crew 10 Commander Anne McClain enthusiastically pumps her fists in the air to celebrate the end of a successful five -month mission to the international space station. / Credit: SpaceX
The crew 10 pilots canceled from the forward port of the station at 6.15 pm Friday, two days later than originally planned for strong wind on the coast of South California.
After moving a safe distance from the lab complex, McClain and the company enjoyed a few last hours in the room before their ship stood for a south-west-to-northeast route to San Diego.
At 10:39 am the forward draco bow -bow shutters of the Dragon crew shot for more than 17 minutes to slow the vessel by about 257 km / h, just enough to drop the track about 43 minutes later in the observable atmosphere.
Still moving with about 17,000 km / h – almost 84 football fields per second – the Dragon crew hit the observable atmosphere and was quickly flooded in a fireball of atmospheric friction while it departed sharply to more earthy speeds.
Near the ocean, the main parachutes of the spacecraft, unfolded and blown up, reducing the striving for a soft splashdown.
The crew Dragon Endurance ran out of the space station on Friday evening and put a 17.5 -hour flight back to Earth. / Credit: Sen Live Stream
Left in a job for the replacements of the crew, crew 11 commander Zena Cardman, Co-Pilot Mike Fincke, Japanese astronaut Kimiya Yui and Cosmonaut Oleg Platonov. Also on board: Soyuz MS-27/73S Commander Sergey Ryzhikov, Alexey Zubritsky and NASA Astronaut Jonny Kim.
McClain and her crew members spent four days showing the new crew the ins and outs of space station Operation before they said goodbye and loosen on Friday.
Crew 10 was the first crew sponsored by NASA that landed in the Pacific. All previous NASA -Crew Dragon -flights ended with spatdowns off the coast of Florida.
But SpaceX recently decided to change landing locations to ensure that every rubble of the non-costly trunk area of the Dragon, shortly before re-entering, splashes in the Pacific, far away from populated areas.
Two commercial crew Dragon flights landed in the Pacific Ocean earlier this year to clear the way for crew 10.
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