Astronauts of the Crew-2 mission successfully returned to Earth after 199 days in space. Elon Musk’s SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule delivered them home
NASA astronauts returned to Earth / Photo: Twitter
The capsule splashed down at about half past five in the morning Kiev time in the Gulf of Mexico. Their return completed a six-month mission to the International Space Station.
Crew Dragon Endeavor brought four astronauts to Earth – Shane Kimbrough and Megan MacArthur from NASA, Thomas Pesce from the European Space Agency and Akihiko Hoshide from the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency.
By the way, we previously wrote that due to problems with the toilet on the Crew Dragon modules, astronauts will have to use diapers during the flight. However, the return went smoothly, so they were unlikely to be useful to them.
This flight was the second long-term mission launched by SpaceX in collaboration with NASA. Crew-2 astronauts launched on the ISS in April and spent 199 days in space. All this time, Crew Dragon Endeavor was moored to the orbital station.
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After the departure of the team, Russian cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov became the chief on the ISS.
Now there are only three astronauts left on the ISS: Mark Vande Hey from NASA, as well as cosmonauts Shkaplerov and Peter Dubrov from Roscosmos.
The crew of the Crew-3 mission was supposed to arrive before the departure of their colleagues, but the launch has already been postponed three times due to various problems. The new date is November 11th.
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Source From: Segodnya
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