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posted by takyon on Sunday August 02 2020, @09:21PM   Printer-friendly

Demo-2 safely returns Bob and Doug to Earth to conclude historic start to new Commercial Era

NASA and SpaceX have successfully returned NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley aboard the Crew Dragon Endeavour. The return to Earth brought an end to the historic first private-company spaceflight of humans to Earth orbit and the commencement of NASA's Commercial Crew Program.

Splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico came as expected at 2:48 pm EDT (18:48 UTC) off the southern coast of Alabama and southwest of Pensacola, Florida.

The splashdown culminated the historic Demo-2 flight which launched humans into orbit on the first-ever privately owned and operated rocket and spacecraft from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center on 30 May 2020.

The launch marked the first time since the final flight of space shuttle Atlantis in 2011 that humans launched into orbit from the United States, and this historic splashdown was the first landing of a spacecraft with humans on board in the Gulf of Mexico.

Moreso, it marked the first end of mission water landing for a U.S. human space flight since Apollo-Soyuz Test Program in July 1975 and the first global human spaceflight water landing since Soyuz 23 accidentally came down in Lake Tengiz on 16 October 1976.

Also at NASA, Space News, BBC, and Teslarati.


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  • (Score: 4, Funny) by PiMuNu on Monday August 03 2020, @09:21AM (2 children)

    by PiMuNu (3823) on Monday August 03 2020, @09:21AM (#1030662)

    FTFY - I used my mod points on the person complaining about the person complaining about the idiots. k thx.

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  • (Score: 2) by RS3 on Monday August 03 2020, @02:18PM

    by RS3 (6367) on Monday August 03 2020, @02:18PM (#1030734)

    Sounds like you're describing an Escher drawing.

  • (Score: 2) by Tokolosh on Tuesday August 04 2020, @02:35PM

    by Tokolosh (585) on Tuesday August 04 2020, @02:35PM (#1031244)

    Modded you funny, yw.