The reusable spacecraft Crew Dragon, carrying four tourists, successfully landed in the Gulf of Mexico in southwestern Florida. This was reported on the SpaceX company page on the X social network.
The ship’s landing capsule is known to have made a soft splashdown using a parachute system at 03:36 US East Coast time (10:36 Moscow time).
September 12 SpaceX reportedFor the first time in history, non-professional astronauts went into space; they were participants in the commercial Polaris Dawn mission. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle, containing the Crew Dragon spacecraft, lifted off from the John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 05:24 (12:24 Moscow time) on September 10. The Polaris Dawn commercial mission kept the spacecraft in low Earth orbit for five days. On board were businessman Jared Isaacman, retired US Air Force pilot Scott Poteet, and engineers Anna Menon and Sarah Gillies.
As SpaceX founder Elon Musk stated, the crew of the Polaris Dawn space expedition It was like that The farthest distance from Earth in half a century of space flights by any country.
Musk previously statedHe said the unmanned Starship spacecraft will go to Mars within two years.
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Source: Gazeta
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