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Crew-8 was the eighth SpaceX operational mission in the Commercial Crew Program and the 13th overall crewed orbital flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft. [8] The mission launched at 3:53:38 UTC on 4 March 2024 (3 March, 10:53:38 pm EST, local time at the launch site). [9] SpaceX sent the 50th astronaut on this Crew Dragon launch. [10]
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, brought NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Mike Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Russian Cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin back to Earth at 17,500 mph after ...
The crew were exposed to the toxic fumes from 24,000 ft (7.3 km) down to landing. About an hour after landing the crew developed chemical-induced pneumonia and their lungs had edema. They experienced shortness of breath and were hospitalized in Hawaii. The crew spent five days in the hospital, followed by a week of observation in semi-isolation.
SpaceX Crew-8 mission had a safe splashdown and recovery after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Florida, at 3:29 a.m. local time — the space agency’s eighth commercial crew ...
Nasa said the SpaceX dragon had executed a normal entry and splashdown and that recovery of the crew and spacecraft was “without incident.” At the end of their seven-and-a-half-month mission ...
Jeanette Jo Epps (born November 3, 1970) is an American aerospace engineer and NASA astronaut.Epps received both her M. S. and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering from the University of Maryland, where she was part of the rotor-craft research group and was a NASA GSRP Fellow.
PHOTO: NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 members are seen inside the Dragon spacecraft shortly after having landed off the coast of Pensacola, Fla, on Oct. 25, 2024.
Matthew Stuart Dominick (born December 7, 1981) is an American test pilot and astronaut.As a pilot in the U.S. Navy, Dominick has more than 1,600 hours of flight time in 28 aircraft, 400 carrier-arrested landings, 61 combat missions, and almost 200 flight test carrier landings.