WASHINGTON: A Nasa live broadcast showed four astronauts returning to Earth on Monday in a SpaceX craft after spending six months on the International Space Station, signalling the conclusion of a hectic assignment. Astronauts returns after 6 months mission in Space-X.
During their “Crew-2” mission, the international crew conducted thousands of experiments in orbit and assisted in the refurbishment of the ISS’s solar panels.
Their Dragon spacecraft, called “Endeavour,” splash down in the Gulf of Mexico at 10:33 p.m., slow by four massive parachutes before being hauled aboard a rescue ship.
Dragon returned to Earth last night with Crew-2 astronauts on board after a 199-day stay at the @Space_Station pic.twitter.com/FwP6lvCHgM
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 9, 2021
Nasa astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide, and European Space Agency astronaut Thomas Pesquet were then haul out of the capsule and placed on stretchers. As a precaution – human bodies need to re-adjust to gravity after extended periods in space.
Astronauts returns after 6 months mission in Space-X
After Dragon splash down, Kimbrough heard remarking on the Nasa live stream, “It’s great to be back to Planet Earth.”
The Crew-2 astronauts spent their time on the International Space Station recording the Earth’s surface to record human-caused changes and natural events, cultivating Hatch chile peppers, and studying worms to learn more about human health changes in space.
Smiles, thumbs up, and peace signs. The @SpaceX Crew-2 astronauts are happy to be home after six months in space. pic.twitter.com/W9ziABkq0k
— NASA (@NASA) November 9, 2021
“What’s next, the Moon?
“I’m honoured to have once again represented France in space!” “What’s next, the Moon?” Pesquet had tweeted about his return trip.
Endeavour undocked from the ISS at 2:05 p.m., marking the start of their trip back to Earth, according to Nasa.
It then took images after looping around the ISS for almost an hour and a half, the first such trip since a Russian Soyuz executed a similar manoeuvre in 2018.
Crew-2 astronauts have donned their spacesuits ahead of Dragon’s reentry into the Earth’s atmosphere pic.twitter.com/1kKg2iH7ZA
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 9, 2021
The astronauts can point their cameras via a small circular window at the top of the forward hatch of the Dragon, which operated mostly independently. Due to heavy winds, the departure was postpone one day.
Weather and a “small medical concern,” as describe by Nasa, have also delay the departure of the next group of astronauts on the Crew-3 mission, which is now scheduled to launch on Wednesday.
Until then, just three astronauts — two Russians and one American — will be on board the ISS.
Following the termination of the Space Shuttle programme, SpaceX began supplying astronauts with a taxi service to the International Space Station in 2020, ending a nine-year reliance on Russian rockets for the journey.
On their way home, the crew encountered one additional challenge: they to wear diapers after a malfunction with the craft’s waste management system was discover, requiring it to remain offline.
From the time the hatch closed at 12:40 p.m. until after splashdown, the astronauts had no access to a bathroom for about 10 hours.
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