He covered 129 space shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune and scores of commercial and military launches. NASA astronauts splash down after historic SpaceX mission, See NASA spacecraft successfully land on an asteroid, Meet the diverse astronauts flying SpaceX's next mission, SpaceX strapped a camera to a Falcon 9 rocket. All rights reserved. SpaceX plans for the astronauts to exit the capsule within an hour after splashdown, at which point it will collect the capsule for re-use. It's great to have such an uplifting story at the intersection of innovation and humanity’s desire to do great things. Standard & Poor's and S&P are registered trademarks of Standard & Poor's Financial Services LLC and Dow Jones is a registered trademark of Dow Jones Trademark Holdings LLC. In 2014. "Mauritania on the Atlantic coast of Africa has stunning reds that always have me reaching for a camera," Behnken tweeted on July 22. Please check CNN Business for more news. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Splashes Down in Gulf of Mexico The capsule parachuted the NASA astronauts Robert L. Behnken and Douglas G. … On June 29, Hurley shared this image showing the "Los Angeles Basin, where @SpaceX headquarters is located and where Dragon #Endeavour was built. NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were strapped into Crew Dragon and ready to go prior to the launch scrub on May 27. A starry sky and an atmospheric glow frame the Earth's horizon. It was a beautiful day to see the Great Lakes and my childhood home in upstate New York," Hurley wrote on June 13. The last U.S. space return by sea was the joint Apollo-Soyuz docking mission, which ended with the Apollo capsule’s return in July 1975, northwest of Hawaii.

SpaceX Astronauts Return to Earth After 62 Days in Orbit SpaceX/NASA Astronauts Return to Earth ... After 62 Days in Orbit!!! Most stock quote data provided by BATS. Sri Lanka and the brightly lit southern tip of India are shown in this photograph from the International Space Station on July 24. NASA astronaut Garret Reisman, who helped SpaceX develop Crew Dragon, said it took him about 15 minutes to sit up and another 15 to be able to stand after he returned to Earth after Space Shuttle missions. After a brief hangup caused by wayward fumes given off by propellant, the Crew Dragon opened its hatch and Behnken and Hurley took their first steps into Earth's gravity after spending two months in the zero-G environment of space. There's a lot riding on a safe, uneventful return for Crew Dragon. The program, called Commercial Crew, sought to spur innovation and encouraged corporations to compete to bring down costs. It's SpaceX's Starship prototype, Go inside Virgin Galactic's spaceship for tourists, See NASA's big plans for its new Mars rover, Perseverance, Mars is the latest arena in US-China rivalry, US astronauts welcomed aboard International Space Station, Elon Musk told CNN in 2004 how he could help NASA, Watch the biggest moments in SpaceX's history, Atlas V launches for US Space Force mission, SpaceX launches more satellites for its internet constellation, Watch Bezos' Blue Origin test its space tourism rocket, Watch SpaceX's Starship Mk1 partially explode during test, The best views from the historic NASA-SpaceX mission. They were followed quickly by the Crew Dragon's four main parachutes. The sun's glint beams off a partly cloudy South Pacific as the International Space Station's orbital track took it halfway between Australia and South America on July 18. Tracking footage of Crew Dragon’s descent, parachute deployments and splashdown pic.twitter.com/pzbm1iXCC6.