US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX's new Crew Dragon, were riding the capsule home ...
REUTERS: US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who flew to the International Space Station in SpaceX's new Crew Dragon, were riding the capsule home for a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday after a two-month voyage that was NASA's first crewed mission from home soil in nine years.late on Saturday to begin their 21-hour trip home aboard Crew Dragon"Endeavor," catching a few hours of sleep before an early Sunday wakeup call from their sons.
"The hardest part was getting us launched, but the most important part is bringing us home," Behnken said during a farewell ceremony on Saturday before leaving the space station. At 18,000 feet the capsule will deploy an initial set of parachutes to slow its 350 mile-per-hour descent before unfurling a final set of parachutes at a 6,000 feet to ease its fall into the water.
The landmark mission, launched from NASA's Kennedy Space Center on May 31, marked the first time the US space agency launched humans from American soil since its shuttle program retired in 2011. Since then the United States has relied on Russia's space program to launch its astronauts to the space station.
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