Only a test dummy was aboard the SpaceX capsule, but the first manned flight is scheduled for July with two astronauts
This still image taken from NASA TV, shows the splashdown of the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule on March 8, 2019, in the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX’s swanky new crew capsule has returned to Earth, ending its first test flight with an old-fashioned splashdown. The Dragon undocked from the International Space Station early Friday. Six hours later, the capsule carrying a test dummy, named Ripley, plopped into the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.
It marks the first time in 50 years that a capsule designed for astronauts returned from space by plopping into the Atlantic. Canadian station astronaut David Saint-Jacques was the first to enter the Dragon when it arrived and the last to leave. He found the capsule "very slick" and called it business class.
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