The crewed Crew Dragon spacecraft of the American company SpaceX with four astronauts on board returned to Earth and successfully splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico. The broadcast of the return of the crew of the Crew-1 mission on Sunday, May 2, was held on the official NASA website.
There are four astronauts aboard the Resilience spacecraft – Americans Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker, as well as Japanese cosmonaut Soichi Noguchi. The ship was flooded off the coast of Florida in the Gulf of Mexico at 02:57 local time (09:57 Moscow time).
As the site kp.ru reported, the manned spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station and began its return to Earth last night. The crew of the Crew-1 mission returned home after six months in orbit.