{"id":22813,"date":"2021-05-02T17:24:44","date_gmt":"2021-05-02T09:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-crew-1-returns-back-to-earth-after-dragons-first-6-month-stay-in-space\/"},"modified":"2021-05-02T17:24:44","modified_gmt":"2021-05-02T09:24:44","slug":"spacex-crew-1-returns-back-to-earth-after-dragons-first-6-month-stay-in-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-crew-1-returns-back-to-earth-after-dragons-first-6-month-stay-in-space\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Crew-1 returns back to Earth after Dragon\u2019s first 6-month stay in space"},"content":{"rendered":"
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After a 6-month stay at the International Space Station (ISS), SpaceX\u2019s first operational crew mission returned early this morning back on Earth.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX\u2019s Crew-1 mission lifted off from LC-39A back on November 16, 2020, on top of a Falcon 9 rocket. This mission marked the start of the first operational mission for NASA\u2019s Commercial Crew Program which started all the way back in 2011 before the final flight of the Space Shuttle.<\/p>\n

Dragon Resilience undocked from the IDA-3 port on the ISS at about 8:37 PM EDT and after 4 short burns of the Draco thrusters, the capsule departed the station. It then went on a roughly 6-hour coast until the Dragon\u2019s orbit aligned with the primary splashdown location off the coast of Panama City, Florida. This marked both the longest stay in space of a US crew vehicle, at 167 days in space, and the first capsule splashdown at night since Apollo 8.<\/p>\n

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