NASA Astronauts Finally Return to Earth, Almost 9 Months Delayed
A SpaceX capsule carrying two NASA astronauts, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, splashed down off Florida’s Gulf Coast on ...
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Before leaving the space shuttle to perform tasks in space ... wears special equipment consisting of a partialpressure suit, a parachute harness assembly, and a parachute pack.
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NASA’s “X-38” Space Shuttle: An Origin Story For SpaceX?
That distinction belongs to the Space Shuttle, which is by most accounts ... On the descent back to Earth’s surface, “a steerable parafoil parachute” would have “deployed at an altitude ...
Sunita Williams returns home: Why NASA astronauts opted for splashdown instead of landing on solid ground?
NASA Crew-9 astronauts Sunita Williams, Nick Hague, Butch Wilmore, and Russian cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov breathed earthly ...
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US military's mini space shuttle returns to Earth after orbiting for 434 days on a secret mission
This photo provided by United States Space Force the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle-7 (OTV-7), the U.S. Space Force’s dynamic unmanned spaceplane, successfully deorbited and landed at Vandenberg ...
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US military’s mini space shuttle returns to Earth after orbiting for 434 days on a secret mission
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The U.S. military’s classified mini space shuttle returned to Earth on Friday after circling the world for 434 days. Federal cuts squeeze already-struggling food ...