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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 ...
The overlap after Crew-9 arrived was slightly longer than usual to allow time to reconfigure Crew-8 and Crew-9 as the Starliner astronauts moved to Crew-9. The return of Crew-8 was delayed for several additional weeks due to poor weather conditions in the splashdown zones surrounding Florida caused by Hurricane Milton and several other storms. [20]
Seven Expedition 72 crew members — a normal crew size — remain on the orbiting laboratory after Endeavour’s Wednesday departure. Dragon undocked from the space station at 5:05 p.m. on Wednesday.
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 ...
After the space shuttles retired, NASA hired private companies for astronaut rides to the space station, paying Boeing and SpaceX billions of dollars. This was the Boeing's first test flight with a crew aboard. The initial demo in 2019, flying empty, never made it to the space station because of bad software, and Boeing repeated the test in 2022.
Crew-8: 4 March 2024, 3:53:38 25 October 2024, 07:29:02 235 days, 3 hours, 35 minutes Longest Crew Dragon mission to date. Ferried four Expedition 70/71/72 crew members to the ISS. ISS stay extended and two makeshift seats added to allow spacecraft to serve as "lifeboat" for Boeing CFT crew if needed. [32]
But the Crew 9 flight was held up, and the Crew 8 mission extended, while NASA managers debated whether Boeing's Starliner capsule, launched June 5 on the ship's first piloted test flight, could ...
The crew traveled nearly 100 million miles over the course of their 235-day mission and completed 3,760 orbits around Earth. The typically six-month-long mission was delayed because of Hurricanes ...