From left: ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet, NASA astronauts Megan McArthur and Shane Kimbrough, and JAXA astronaut Aki Hoshide inside the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour shortly after having splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, USA.
Thomas is the first European to fly to the International Space Station and return on a commercial spacecraft. SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endeavour transporting Crew-2 autonomously undocked from the International Space Station and after a series of burns, entered Earth’s atmosphere and deployed parachutes for a soft water-landing. Thomas and crew splashed down on 9 November 2021 at 03:33 GMT (04:33 CET).
Credits: NASA–A.Gemignani
Posted by europeanspaceagency on 2021-11-09 05:16:09
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