The Crew Dragon ship with commercial tourists returned to Earth – Kommersant
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The Crew Dragon spacecraft, carrying four tourists, returned to Earth after nearly three weeks on the International Space Station (ISS). This is the third all-commercial crew flight undertaken by Axiom Space (owned by SpaceX) under a contract with NASA.
“Dragon landing confirmed. Welcome to Earth,” says SpaceX in a message on the social network X (formerly Twitter).
The rocket with tourists launched from the spaceport at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on January 18 at 16:49 (January 19 at 00:49 Moscow time). On February 7, the ship undocked from the ISS. On February 9, at approximately 8:30 (16:30 Moscow time), it splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean near the coast of Florida.
The commander of the third tourist mission was former NASA astronaut Michael Lopez-Alegria. The crew also included Italian Walter Villadei, Swede Marcus Wandt and Turk Alper Gezeravci – he became the first Turkish citizen to travel in space.
Read more about commercial space flights in the Kommersant FM article. “Tourists were sent on a suborbital flight”.
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