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SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft successfully returned from the ISS

08.03.2019

The Crew Dragon spacecraft, developed by Elon Musk's SpaceX to deliver and return astronaut crews to the International Space Station (ISS), has successfully splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean after the first Demo-1 test mission. The return and splashdown could be seen on the NASA broadcast.

Crew Dragon undocked from the ISS, after a six-hour flight entered the atmosphere and, braking with the help of four parachutes, splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean about 400 kilometers east of Cape Canaveral.

The first-ever test launch of Crew Dragon took place on March 2 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the next day the ship successfully docked to the ISS. It was a test flight without astronauts. On board the ship was only a humanoid mannequin, nicknamed Ripley.

The NASA-approved Crew Dragon certification program consists of four flight tests: two tests of the crew rescue system (from the launch pad and in flight), as well as two flights to the ISS - uncrewed and manned. Thus, Crew Dragon has already successfully passed the tests of the crew rescue system with an accident simulation at the start, and also successfully completed its first flight without a crew.

At the end of June, Crew Dragon will make another unmanned flight to test the emergency crew evacuation system in flight, and in July, if all goes well, will make its first manned flight with astronauts on board - astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley will go on a 15-day expedition to the ISS.

The current contract with NASA requires SpaceX to use a new Crew Dragon capsule every time. At the same time, NASA's contract with Boeing allows you to use the same Starliner ship again. Perhaps in the future, NASA will allow SpaceX to reuse the Crew Dragon, as it did with the cargo version of the Dragon.

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