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Dragon spacecraft arrives back into Port Canaveral after historic splashdown - WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando
Aug 07, 2020 52 secs
– Looking a little toasty after a historic splashdown on the Gulf Coast, SpaceX’s astronaut spacecraft will arrive back at Cape Canaveral on Friday afternoon.

The Crew Dragon spacecraft nicknamed Endeavour arrived by boat coming into Port Canaveral around 5 p.m.

SpaceX launched Endeavour on a Falcon 9 rocket on May 30 from Kennedy Space Center with NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, becoming the first time humans have launched from Florida since 2011.

Behnken said next, before the parachutes deployed slowing the spacecraft from 350 mph to about 15 mph for splashdown, they could feel Crew Dragon maneuver itself for re-entry using its thrusters.

Once the spacecraft is back at Cape Canaveral, the work begins to determine if NASA can issue the final flight certification for Dragon.

Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, said it will take about four months to refurbish the spacecraft before it can fly astronauts again.

Another astronaut crew, with three NASA astronauts and one Japanses astronaut, are set to launch on a separate Crew Dragon spacecraft in late September

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