SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts back to Earth after a busy six months on the International Space Station landed Monday off the coast of Florida.
Since arriving on April 24, the crew of two Americans, a Frenchman, and one Japanese astronaut conducted hundreds of experiments and helped upgrade the station’s solar panels.
They boarded their Dragon, dubbed “Endeavour,” and undocked from the ISS at 2:05 p.m. (1905 GMT), NASA announced.
Endeavour then looped around the ISS for around an hour-and-a-half to take photographs, the first such mission since a Russian Soyuz spaceship performed a similar maneuver in 2018.
Live thermal video imaging captured a glimpse of the capsule streaking like a meteor through the night sky over the gulf minutes before splashdown. It landed in the Gulf of Mexico at 10:33 p.m. US Eastern Time (0333 GMT Tuesday), marking the end of the “Crew-2” mission.
Since arriving on April 24, the crew of two Americans, a Frenchman, and one Japanese astronaut conducted hundreds of experiments and helped upgrade the station’s solar panels.
They boarded their Dragon, dubbed “Endeavour,” and undocked from the ISS at 2:05 p.m. (1905 GMT), NASA announced.
Endeavour then looped around the ISS for around an hour-and-a-half to take photographs, the first such mission since a Russian Soyuz spaceship performed a similar maneuver in 2018.
Live thermal video imaging captured a glimpse of the capsule streaking like a meteor through the night sky over the gulf minutes before splashdown. It landed in the Gulf of Mexico at 10:33 p.m. US Eastern Time (0333 GMT Tuesday), marking the end of the “Crew-2” mission.
