SpaceX capsule with 4 astronauts on board splashes down in the Gulf of Mexico, ending another successful mission
Trips to the International Space Station are always eventful. But few expeditions have been quite like what the Crew-2 astronauts have experienced since they arrived at the station in April.
But they’ve also had the station be tilted perilously out of position twice because of errant thruster firings. That prompted the NASA crew to evacuate the station and board their Dragon spacecraft in case they needed to abort and come home, NASA astronaut Shane Kimbrough said during a briefing last week.
He didn’t specify when the astronauts left the station for the Dragon, and a NASA spokesperson said she did not know.
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