On May 2, 2021 at 06:57 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Resilience” (Crew-1 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico south of Panama City, Florida, USA. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth 4 members of Expedition 65: American astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Japanese astronaut Soichi Noguchi. They spent in space 167 days, 6 hours and 29 minutes.
Seven other ISS crew members - Russian cosmonauts Oleg Novickiy and Pyotr Dubrov; American astronauts Mark Vande Hei, Robert Kimbrough and Katherine Megan McArthur; Japanese astronaut Akihiko Hoshide and French astronaut Thomas Pesquet in orbit aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 65 crew members. It was the second piloted flight of the “Crew Dragon” spacecraft (it is also known as “Dragon-2” spacecraft). Attachments: |