A four-member crew, including NASA astronauts Sunita "Suni" Williams and Barry "Butch" Wilmore, left the ISS early Tuesday on ...

The conical capsule landed with the assistance of a parachute and was quickly recovered. The spacecraft carried a ...

In the final moments of re-entry, drogue parachutes deployed at an altitude of 5,500 feet, helping stabilize the capsule ...

The intense heat, generated by friction between the spacecraft and atmospheric particles is shielded with the help of ...

SpaceX’s Dragon capsule will re-enter Earth and splash down off Florida’s coast at 3:27 am IST Wednesday, with the crew ...

With Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore set to return to Earth after nearly nine months in space, let's look at how the astronauts' return takes place ...

It is the method favoured by American spacecraft – such as NASA’s Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo – to re-enter Earth. In a ...

Tuesday evening, the 'stuck' Starliner astronauts returned on SpaceX Dragon which launched Crew-9. Here's the recap.

Hague, Gorbunov, Wilmore and Williams were replaced as members of the ISS Expedition 72 with the March 14 launch and docking of NASA’s Crew-10 Dragon with agency astronauts Anne McClaine and Nicole ...

NASA astronauts Sunita Williams and Butch Wilmore returned to Earth after nearly nine months aboard the International Space ...

Each Draco thruster generates 90 pounds of force in space. Dragon’s parachute system: Dragon features two drogue parachutes to stabilise the spacecraft during reentry and four main parachutes ...