In accordance with NPR’s report from Monday, 4 astronauts representing a variety of space organizations and traveling aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour had successfully touched down on Earth after completing the previous six months aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
At 12:17 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (EDT), the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour, which had been in space for 186 days and was carrying NASA astronauts Woody Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, an astronaut from the United Arab Emirates (UAE) named Sultan Al-Neyadi, as well as a cosmonaut from the Russian space agency Roscosmos named Andrey Fedyaev, successfully landed in the Atlantic Ocean, which is off the shores of Jacksonville, Florida.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX made the announcement about the splashdown of the Dragon Endeavour on X, which was once known as Twitter.
The Dragon Endeavour had been secured by teams attached to the SpaceX recovery ship, which included two speedboats, to ensure that it was in a secure position for the attempted recovery.
As soon as the teams in the speedboats had finished their mission, the search and rescue ship was prepared to bring the Dragon Endeavour up onto the main level with the astronauts still inside.
After arriving on the upper deck, the crew was extracted from the spacecraft and transported to a location where they are presently getting medical evaluations prior to being transported by helicopter to the airport near Houston.
NASA’s Crew-6 project got off to a blazing start in the middle of the night at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida back in March of this past year.
The mission was successfully completed on Monday shortly after midnight Eastern Time on Labor Day, after having traveled 790 miles and completed more than 3,000 circles of the earth.
At a speed of 17,000 miles per hour, the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavour burst through the upper atmosphere. The heat barrier on the Endeavour was able to withstand heat of over 3,500 degrees F.
The spacecraft made a soft landing in the Atlantic Ocean just south of Jacksonville, Florida, shielded by an overhang of parachutes, after gradually reducing its speed to a leisurely 15 miles per hour over a period of an hour.
