America's first crewed spaceship to fly to the International Space Station in nearly a decade returned safely to Earth on Sunday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico.
"On behalf of the NASA and SpaceX teams, welcome back to planet Earth and thanks for flying SpaceX," replied SpaceX's Mike Heiman, to laughter in the control room.A flotilla of civilian boats swarmed the landing zone as a recovery ship sped to the scorched capsule and hoisted it aboard with its crane.
The hatch opening was delayed as a team worked to stop a potentially dangerous leak of rocket fuel vapor. They were reunited with their families in Houston, where they walked off a plane -- in apparently good physical shape and upbeat spirits -- at a military base. "Thank you to all!" he tweeted."Great to have NASA Astronauts return to Earth after very successful two month mission."
The US has paid the two companies a total of about $7 billion for their"space taxi" contracts, though aerospace giant Boeing's efforts have floundered.The Crew Dragon capsule performed several precisely choreographed sequences in order to return home safely.
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