SpaceX capsule with NASA astronauts aboard prepares for landing in Gulf of Mexico
The successful mission opens the door for a new era of spaceflight, one in which NASA contracts with private companies such as Hawthorne-based SpaceX to take its astronauts to the space station.
“The Commercial Crew program has really just proven the business model for how we go forward,” he said of NASA’s partnership with SpaceX and Boeing Co. to ferry astronauts to the space station.Saturday afternoon. Behnken and Hurley were able to sleep aboard the capsule before being awoken Sunday morning with an audio message from their young sons.
By 2:43 p.m. Eastern time, live footage from a high-altitude NASA research plane showed a tiny white dot rushing into the frame as the spacecraft sped toward its landing site at about 400 mph. The hatch opening was delayed by the detection of toxic fumes in the outer shell of the capsule. The vapors did not leak into the cabin, but crew aboard the recovery vessel flushed the air around the capsule to make sure it was safe.Fume checks are common with spacecraft, including the space shuttle, said Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew program. In the future, the spacecraft may purge the system sooner, said SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell.
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