Space, a profitable return for Spacex Dragon: 148 days in orbit | EUROtoday

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The Spacex Dragon spacecraft efficiently concluded its mission, killing off the coast of San Diego, California, with 4 crew members on board. The return marks the tip of a 148 -day keep in area, as a part of the crew operations of the crew in the direction of the International Space Station (ISS).

On board the capsule there have been the astronauts of NASA Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, the consultant of the Japanese area company Jaxa Takuya Onishi and the cosmonaut of Roscosmos Kirill Peskov. The mission, a part of NASA’s business crew program, confirms the more and more central position of Spacex in human transport in low orbit, a key phase within the new area financial system.

The fooling adopted an automatic return part, with fixed controls from the bottom and favorable climate situations within the restoration space. Spacex and NASA technicians instantly began the crew extraction operations and capsule security.

The flight is a part of the common missions that permit to ensure the continual presence of astronauts on the ISS, supporting scientific analysis, upkeep and technological experimentation actions. The settlement between NASA and Spacex, which has changed habit to Soyuz Russian launches, has allowed in recent times a discount within the orbit entry prices and better operational flexibility.