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• The 13-foot-wide capsule was recovered after it parachuted to its water landing
SpaceX completed its sixth human spaceflight after it returned the astronauts of NASA’s Crew-3 mission to Earth early on Friday morning.
The Crew-3 departed the International Space Station (ISS) during the early hours of Thursday morning and spent more than 20 hours free-flying through orbit aboard the Dragon Endurance spacecraft, stated NASA.
The 13-foot-wide capsule was recovered after it parachuted to its water landing, by teams aboard SpaceX recovery vessels.
What the program is about
NASA astronauts Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and Tom Marshburn, and ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Matthias Maurer traveled 75,060,792 miles during their mission, spent 175 days aboard the space station, and completed 2,832 orbits around Earth.
SpaceX said that the Falcon 9 launched Dragon and the Crew-3 astronauts to the orbiting laboratory on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, at 9:03 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
The Crew-3 flight is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program and its return to Earth follows on the heels of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 launch, which docked at the station on April 27, beginning another science expedition.
Source - NASA, SpaceX
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