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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 ...
A record-extending launch. Tuesday 19 November 2024 18:43, Anthony Cuthbertson. Today’s launch will be 119th rocket that SpaceX has sent to space this year, marking a new record for the private ...
Incredible photos showed Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship perform its breakthrough “belly flop” maneuver as it splashed down in the Indian Ocean Sunday morning. And that wasn’t even the coolest ...
SpaceX, a private space exploration company owned by billionaire Elon Musk, had a busy several days, with four launches across three states, including another test flight of the Starship spaceship.
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.
Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft or launch vehicle in a body of water, usually by parachute. This has been the primary recovery method of American capsules including NASA’s Mercury , Gemini , Apollo and Orion along with the private SpaceX Dragon .
A few minutes later, the spacecraft's parachutes unfurled and the Crew Dragon settled to a gentle 15-mph splashdown at 3:36 a.m. EDT near Dry Tortugas, about 70 miles from Key West, Florida.
They took off on March 4 aboard SpaceX's reusable spacecraft, Crew Dragon Endeavour, which was launched by a Falcon 9 rocket. Splashdown of Dragon confirmed – welcome back to Earth ...