SpaceX's Crew Dragon is not a one-customer vehicle. Related: How NASA's Demo-2 astronauts will make a historic splashdown Crew Dragon future The spacecraft will splash down in the Atlantic Ocean just off of Florida's East Coast where a SpaceX recovery ship will be ready to retrieve Behnken and Hurley within an hour after landing.
Ahead of reentry, the spacecraft will jettison its stubby service module (which contains its solar arrays and other systems) and position itself heat shield down for the plunge through Earth's atmosphere.Īfter reentry, Crew Dragon will deploy four parachutes to slow its descent further. 1, Crew Dragon will back away from the station and slowly make its way outside a so-called "keep-out sphere," a safety zone around the orbiting laboratory.Ĭrew Dragon will then return to Earth the following day.
Once a landing day was identified for the Demo-2 mission, Behnken and Hurley packed the spacecraft with items to return to Earth and prepared for undocking.
Like its uncrewed counterpart, the Crew Dragon spacecraft is equipped with a heat shield and parachutes to return to Earth.
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