Two NASA astronauts who rode to the Space_Station on SpaceX's new Crew Dragon are heading home for a splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico
- The two NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon are heading home for a Sunday splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico, capping a two-month voyage in space that marked NASA’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years.
NASA and SpaceX — monitoring the crew’s return from Houston, Texas and SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California — ruled out splashdown options in the Atlantic earlier this week due to Tropical Storm Isaias, a cyclone expected to churn alongside Florida’s east coast as a hurricane in the coming days.
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk’s SpaceX became the first private company to send humans to orbit on May 31 with the launch of Behnken and Hurley, who will have spent more than two months on the space station upon returning.
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