Updated March 18, at 6:30 pm EDT: Dragon Freedom Talhasi fell down from the coast of Florida, and the spacecraft was rode on the recovery vessel, Megan.
Shortly before the EDT (2200 UTC) at 6 pm on Tuesday evening, four members of the crew -9 mission fell down into the water of Mexico near Talhasi in Florida.
The quartet started his journey home in the Dragon Freedom Spacecraft after about an hour after midnight on Tuesday, when the spacecraft was disorganized from the International Space Station. The crew is an unusual mixture of two separate missions that eventually covered one into one.
Dragon Freedom ignored the space station on EDT (1705 UTC) at 1:05 pm on Tuesday, causing a nearly 17 -hour journey to fall down with Gulf Coast in Florida. The parachute-supported splash down was done at 5:57 pm at EDT (2157 UTC).
NASA Astronaut and Crew -9 Commander Nick Haag said, “From Crew -9, I would like to say that it was the privilege of bringing the station at home and working and being a part of a mission and a team, which spreads the world, working together in cooperation for the benefits of humanity,”
“For our colleagues and dear friends who live at the station … we know in the great hands of the station. We are excited to see what you guys are going to achieve.”
Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonout Aleksandr Gorbunov launched the ISS in the Dragon Freedom spacecraft in September 2024 and would return to Earth after logging on to 171 total days in space.
His colleagues, NASA astronaut Sun. Williams and Buch Wilmor, will originally return to Earth with 286 days after reaching the space station in the Boeing CST -100 Starlineer spacecraft.
During the Crew Flight Test Mission, which was launched from the Cape Canveral Space Force Station on June 5, 2024, NASA’s leadership determined that enough uncertainty with the Starlineer’s propulsion system existing that the best course of action would be to return that vehicle to the Earth without a crew.
At the same time, the agency decided that Williams and Wilmore would become full members of the campaign 72 and return to Earth as members of Crew -9. When the Dragon Freedom launched in September, he did so without his two original crew members to leave the seats available for Williams and Wilmore.
Prior to the departure of Starlineer, two temporary seats were created inside the Dragon Endeavor (which brought the crew -8) to make a way to return home to Williams and Wilmore in an emergency. While Starlineer was docked in ISS, NASA and Boeing also determined that it would be safe to use even in an emergency contingency.
Crew -9 departed from ISS after a brief two -day handover between him and Crew -10, who docked on Saturday, 15 March with the forward port of the Harmoni module of the station. Generally, a handover lasts for about five days, but the exchange was partially abbreviated to take advantage of good weather in the Gulf, but also to preserve the amount of consumers consumed at the space station.
An issue during the transport of the Kennedy Space Center of Northrop Gramman’s cynus spacecraft delayed its planned launch, due to which NASA did some schedule and reshuffled to adjust the change.
The launch time of Crew -10 was also transferred some time due to lack of readiness of its original ride, the crew with tail number C213 was shifted due to the dragon spacecraft.
At one point, the vehicle was slate to blow the crew -9 mission, but it was replaced when the vehicle was not ready to fly. After this, it was determined for crew -10, due to which the mission was delayed from February to March.
With the risk of further delays in the mission, because C213 was still not ready to fly, NASA and SpaceX decided to bring Dragon Dheeraj, originally deployed to fly the AX-4 private astronaut mission for the Axiom Space.
Spacex is expected to blow up four commercial astronauts as part of the free-flying pole orbit mission called Fram2 next time. It is scheduled to be launched in late March or early April.
