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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 ...
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 ...
The four members of the SpaceX Crew-8 mission returned to Earth Friday morning, following months of delays.
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]
MV Megan, formerly known as MV GO Searcher, is one of SpaceX's two Dragon capsule recovery vessels. Owned by SpaceX through Falcon Landing LLC (which also owns SpaceX's faring recovery vessels and Elon Musk's private jet), this vessel, along with its sister ship, MV Shannon, are converted platform supply vessels now equipped to retrieve Crew and Cargo Dragon capsules after splashdown.
With Crew 8 back on Earth, the Crew 9 crew will board their own Crew Dragon capsule early Sunday, Nov. 3, undock from the Harmony module's forward port and then redock at its space-facing port.
Crew Dragon Endeavour (serial number C206) is the first operational Crew Dragon reusable spacecraft manufactured and operated by SpaceX. The spacecraft is named after Space Shuttle Endeavour . It first launched on 30 May 2020 to the International Space Station (ISS) on the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission.
That schedule adjustment in turn delayed Crew-8’s return because Crew-9 had to arrive at the orbiting laboratory for a handoff of duties before Crew-8 could disembark. Weather delays also pushed ...