AUGUST 2 — The two Nasa astronauts who rode to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s new Crew Dragon are due to return today after a two-month voyage that marked Nasa’s first crewed mission from home soil in nine years. US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who launched to the...
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US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who launched to the space station in May, are expected to board Crew Dragon around 5:30 p.m. ET and splash down at one of seven landing sites in the Gulf of Mexico or Atlantic Ocean at about 2:48 p.m. ET on Sunday. “We have plenty of opportunities here in August and we’re in no hurry to come home,” Nasa’s commercial crew manager Steve Stich said, adding the next return opportunity opens tomorrow should Isaias force a delay.
“The water landing portion of it is pretty challenging from a physiological standpoint, just after coming back from being in microgravity,” Hurley, a veteran of two shuttle missions, told reporters in a phone briefing on Friday.
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