In the wee hours of Sunday morning, 2 May, hours before the dawn, the Crew Dragon
Resilience splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, safely returning to Earth the Crew-1 quartet of N.A.S.A. astronauts Mike Hopkins, Victor Glover, & Shannon Walker, & J.A.X.A. astronaut Soichi Noguchi. A night splashdown is not the ideal scenario, but was necessitated by the weather conditions at the recovery zone. The safe return of Crew-1 marks yet another milestone on the return of routine spaceflight to & from the International Space Station from & to the United States.
The
Resilience set a new American spacecraft endurance record, spending one hundred sixty-seven days in space, surpassing the previous record of eighty-four days set by the Skylab 4 Apollo module in 1973-1974.
Bonus Song o' the Day: Crew-1 & the Resilience
Real Can of Yams, "Late Night Swim" from
CODENAME: Koala (Remastered) (Space Cadet Mike Papa Whiskey)
The Wayback Machine Tour of Launch America
Crew-2 Launch
Crew-1 Relocation
Crew-1 Launch
Demo-2 Splashdown
Demo-2 Launch
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