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Space Tourists Land Safely Back on Earth

  • Posted Sep 19, 2021 09:25 by Yuri Matoszko
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The three-day flight of the first all-civilian space crew has come to an end. In the early hours of Sunday morning, Cambodian time, The SpaceX Dragon Crew Capsule parachuted into the sea just off the Florida coast. It completed the world’s first space holiday.

The descent from orbit involved a plunge through Earth's atmosphere generating frictional heat that sent temperatures outside of the capsule up to 1,927 degrees Celsius. The four astronauts' flight suits are designed to keep them cool if the cabin heats up. The parachute worked perfectly, slowing the capsule’s velocity descent to 24.14 kilometers per hour.

The Space X Inspiration 4 mission was completed after the team took just an hour to get the tourists out of the capsule. The rocketry company’s owner Elon Musk and his team celebrated the successful journey. Musk has given a leap ahead for space travelling, with his rocket ship bringing civilians to orbit the Earth way higher than the International Space Station or the Hubble Space Telescope. It was the farthest any human have flown from Earth since NASA’s Apollo moon program in 1972.

Also for the first time, there were no professional astronauts onboard. The all-civilian crew were given a manual and had to operate the flight themselves after practically no training.


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