Four astronauts have arrived home to planet Earth after working for six months at the international space station.
The astronauts, members of the Crew-6 mission run jointly by NASA and SpaceX, departed the space station on Sunday at 7:05 am ET. The crew spent the day aboard the 13-foot-wide Crew Dragon vehicle as it maneuvered through Earth’s orbit and toward its target landing site off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, where they landed after midnight ET.
The Crew Dragon capsule was traveling at more than 17,000 miles per hour , and as it began the final leg of its descent, the spacecraft’s exterior heated up to about 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit while it sliced back into the thickest part of Earth’s atmosphere. Inside the spacecraft cabin, the passengers were protected by a heat shield and the temperature should’ve stayed at comfortable temperatures well below 100 degrees Fahrenheit .
Rescuers stationed near the splashdown site readied to move the spacecraft to a boat to perform safety checks before the crews could emerge from the capsule.the slow process of helping the crew exit the capsule. One of the astronauts was placed in a special chair to transport him to a medical bay for routine health checks, according to SpaceX:
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