{"id":121043,"date":"2021-05-02T17:19:30","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T09:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121043"},"modified":"2021-05-02T17:21:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T09:21:58","slug":"update-iss-astronauts-splash-down-off-florida-on-spacex-craft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=121043","title":{"rendered":"Update: ISS astronauts splash down off Florida on SpaceX craft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, with parachutes open, returns to Earth with four astronauts.\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

WASHINGTON, May 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) —\u00a0A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth splashed down off Panama City early on Sunday, a NASA livestream showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Boats were retrieving the spacecraft and crew after their six-month mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The crew reported they were feeling well, NASA said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The capsule splashed down at 2.56am local time in the dark in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast after a six-and-a-half hour flight from the ISS, images relayed by NASA’s WB-57 high-altitude research aircraft showed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japan’s Soichi Noguchi went to space last November as the crew on the first fully operational mission to the ISS aboard a vehicle made by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which has become NASA’s favored commercial transportation partner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Seven astronauts remained on the ISS including a new crew of four<\/a> who arrived on a different SpaceX craft last week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Thanks for your hospitality,” Hopkins said earlier as the capsule undocked from the space station<\/a> for its return journey. “We’ll see you back on Earth.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prior to that, two American astronauts made a test mission to the ISS in May and stayed for two months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was the first launch to the ISS from US soil since the end of the Space Shuttle program in 2011. It was also the first crewed mission run by a private company, as opposed to NASA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Until then US astronauts had caught rides to the ISS aboard Russian spacecraft. — NNN-AGENCIES<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft, with parachutes open, returns to Earth with four astronauts. WASHINGTON, May 2 (NNN-AGENCIES) —\u00a0A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth splashed down off Panama City early on Sunday, a NASA livestream showed. Boats were retrieving the spacecraft and crew after their six-month mission aboard the International Space […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":121048,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121043"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=121043"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121043\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/121048"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}