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1 of 2 | NASA shares this thermal position of nan Dragon spacecraft splashing down successful nan Gulf of Mexico connected Tuesday morning. Image courtesy of NASA TV
March 12 (UPI) -- SpaceX's Crew-7 returned to Earth safely Tuesday morning, splashing down successful nan Gulf of Mexico disconnected nan seashore of Pensacola, Fla.
The SpaceX Dragon spacecraft carrying NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, nan European Space Agency's Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov splashed down astatine 5:47 a.m. EDT.
The parachute strategy connected nan Dragon worked to perfection pinch each 4 deploying astatine astir 18,000 feet arsenic nan spacecraft fell backmost to nan Earth. A betterment vessel pinch a accelerated vessel squad completed nan activity to pluck nan capsule retired of nan h2o onto nan main platform of nan ship.
The astronauts underwent first aesculapian checks earlier taking a chopper travel for a level to Houston astatine nan Johnson Space Center.
The crew near nan International Space Station successful nan Dragon Space capsule Monday morning.
After undocking from nan ISS, nan Dragon completed a deorbiting burn, wherever it flew complete southwest Nebraska, Kansas, northeastern Oklahoma, cardinal Arkansas and northeastern Texas and past crossed Mississippi and Alabama connected its measurement to nan Gulf of Mexico.
With nan Crew-7's return, Crew-8 has power of nan abstraction station: NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, on pinch Russian cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket pinch nan Crew-7 Dragon capsule lifts disconnected from Launch Pad 39A astatine Kennedy Space Center successful Florida connected August 26, 2023. NASA's Crew-7 ngo has successfully reached nan International Space Station. Photo by Pat Benic/UPI | License Photo
