A crew capsule built by private company SpaceX to carry people to the International Space Station (ISS) fell into the Atlantic Ocean on Friday as planned. This ended the first orbital mission by which NASA has long tried to send a human crew back into space from American soil. After a five-day mission, the unmanned Crew Dragon capsule separated from the ISS and at 8,45:200 a.m. local time fell into the Atlantic, about XNUMX miles off the coast of Florida.
It was a fast and fiery descent through the Earth's atmosphere, which Elon Musk announced would be the most difficult part of her mission. He was worried about whether the parachutes would deploy correctly and whether the system would direct the capsule to the right location. The successful docking of the Crew Dragon capsule on the ISS on Sunday marked an important step for SpaceX founder and entrepreneur Elon Musk toward launching humans into space.
It is the last in a series of tests that the Crew Dragon capsule had to pass in order to get NASA's approval to carry people. The program aims to end the US space program's dependence on Russia for flights to the ISS. In July, SpaceX is scheduled to transport American astronauts to the ISS. This time, the SpaceX capsule transported a test dummy to the ISS in a Tesla spacesuit equipped with sensors to determine how flight can affect humans, reports Hina.
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