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The change allowed for increased crew protection by reducing the heat load inside the MS-22 spacecraft for cosmonauts Sergey Prokopyev and Dmitry Petelin in the event of an emergency return to Earth. The SpaceX Crew-6 space capsule is designed to bring back crew serving as an emergency evacuation option after Crew-5. [12]
But that did not mean the astronauts would get the first flight back to Earth. A SpaceX Crew Dragon, on a mission dubbed Crew-8, left the International Space Station on Wednesday, but Williams and ...
The three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut spent 232 days aboard the International Space Station, according to NASA Space Station Crew Returns to Earth After 8 Months — But Why Weren't ...
Four astronauts have returned to Earth with Elon Musk's SpaceX after issues with Boeing's Starliner delayed their mission. SpaceX Crew-8 splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 3:29 a ...
NASA and SpaceX plan to return NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore from the International Space Station back to Earth on board the Crew Dragon spacecraft eight months after the initial ...
Astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley were selected by NASA as the Demo-2 mission crew on 3 August 2018. [11] Their mission validated crewed spaceflight operations using SpaceX hardware, including the Dragon spacecraft, the Falcon 9 rocket. [12] SpaceX scrubbed Demo-2's first launch attempt because of weather conditions.
SpaceX Crew-6 was the sixth crewed operational NASA Commercial Crew flight of a Crew Dragon spacecraft, and the ninth overall crewed orbital flight. The mission launched on 2 March 2023 at 05:34:14 UTC, and it successfully docked to the International Space Station (ISS) on 3 March 2023 at 06:40 UTC.
The four Crew 8 fliers — Dominick, Barratt, Epps and Grebenkin — plan to return to Earth around Oct. 4. Hague, Gorbunov, Wilmore and Williams are now expected to come home around Feb. 22 ...