He was put on a stretcher and taken to a medical area. It was the first splashdown by US astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit. Two Nasa astronauts have returned to Earth in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown, their capsule parachuting into the Gulf of Mexico to complete an unprecedented test flight by Elon Musk's SpaceX company. The first astronauts to ride a SpaceX capsule into orbit have emerged from the spacecraft. Back on Earth, their seat would have been in an upright position. The two US NASA astronauts who rode to the International Space Station Crew Dragon Endeavour decoupled from the orbital station carrying US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley ahead of a splashdown off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, the first procedure of its kind in a privately built space capsule. There will be three America's Cup syndicates on the Waitemata Harbour by next month.Auckland's second level 3 lockdown weighed on retailer optimism in August.A daily column looking at some of the more humorous, satirical and simply strange news. Recovery personnel - after checking for toxic vapours - worked alongside Dragon soon after it splashed down.
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An eyewitness on the water said there was a sonic boom when Dragon re-entered the atmosphere. The spacecraft's commander said two readings were perfectly clear and there were no traces of rocket fuel vapour in their sealed section of the capsule. -Couple stranded in Falklands close to home after hitching a ride on a ship; Why the body reacts 'remarkably well' to overeating pizza Thank you to all! It was the first splashdown for astronauts in 45 years. * NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins praises New Zealand space work.
The control room broke into applause at the successful splashdown. Behnken was the first to come out of their capsule, just after 8am (NZT). Poor weather has forced SpaceX to call off the launch of Nasa astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken to the International Space Station (ISS).A crew of three has returned from the International Space Station to a very different planet they left last year.Tesla's founder Elon Musk has wiped $US14 billion ($NZ23b) off the carmaker's value after tweeting that its share price was too high.NASA astronauts Bob Behnken, right, and Doug Hurley have spent more than two months on the International Space Station. The recovery team worked to purge the craft near the side hatch. Photo / AP In launching Hurley and Behnken from Nasa's Kennedy Space Center on May 30, SpaceX became the first private company to send people into orbit.On the go and no time to finish that story right now? Photo / AP SpaceX support teams are deployed on fast boats from the SpaceX GO Navigator recovery ship ahead of the landing of the SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft. The astronauts had been expected to be out of the craft about 7.30am (NZT) but there was a delay to the hatch being opened due toxic vapour detection. The key differentiator is a coating on the pillow called Outlast, a temperature regulating product that is used in the making of astronaut space gloves. "The hardest part was getting us launched, but the most important part is bringing us home," Behnken said during a farewell ceremony early today aboard the space station.Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk's SpaceX became the first private company to send humans to orbit on 31 May with the launch of Behnken and Hurley, who will have spent more than two months on the space station by the time they return.The mission marked the first time NASA launched humans from US soil since its shuttle programme retired in 2011. "It's been a great two months, and we appreciate all you've done as a crew to help us ...," Hurley told the remaining US station crew member Chris Cassidy, as Crew Dragon autonomously eased away from its docking port to begin the 21-hour journey home.NASA and SpaceX are monitoring the crew's return from Houston, Texas and SpaceX's headquarters in Hawthorne, California. And at 6.32am (NZT), SpaceX's Elon Musk tweeted the somewhat intriguing message: "4 mins to Dragon loss of signal due to atmospheric entry plasma."
The astronauts' homecoming capped a mission that ended a prolonged launch drought in the US, which has relied on Russian rockets to ferry astronauts to the space station since the end of the shuttle era. Hurley was then taken out of the capsule and also gave the thumbs-up signal. Earlier, space station commander Chris Cassidy rang the ship's bell as Dragon pulled away, 267 miles (430 kilometres) above Johannesburg, South Africa. Your News is the place for you to save content to read later from any device. They gathered the four parachutes that helped bring the craft safely to Earth. "Welcome back to planet Earth and thanks for flying SpaceX," said Mission Control from SpaceX headquarters.