Astronauts Lay Bare SpaceX Crew Dragon Flight And Journey Experience - Wccftech

NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker, Soichi Noguchi and Victor Glover, shared details about their experience traveling onboard Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s (SpaceX) Crew Dragon capsule as part of their SpaceX Crew-1 mission for the space agency.

The crew took to the skies late last year and returned earlier this month, becoming part of the first operational crewed mission to the International Space Station (ISS) from U.S.

During that event, astronaut Walker explained how her experience of liftoff in the Crew Dragon was different from flying onboard the Russian Soyuz.

According to him, the process of changing Crew Dragon's port (the part of the ISS it's joined to) was seamless and was the most memorable part of his experience.

And taking this up to seven people onboard the International Space Station that was a huge moment.

And then of course I've got to say splashing down and having a successful end to mission [look at Walker who comments "very important"] was a huge moment as well and then everything that we had going on board the space station from the spacewalks to the science.

And one of the reasons I say I think that is such an important part is that there's going to be a lot of vehicle traffic to the International Space Station over the next four five years particularly with these commercial capabilities coming up.

And so I think you know having that experience and being under g in a dynamic environment can get you some context.

Going back to DM-2, Bob and Doug gave us a lot of gauge about what that event was going to be like and it would come very quickly.

And that's what I would say about the whole thing is that I expected it to be so dynamic and so challenging that the actual event was I think a little less than what I was expecting so it was enjoyable all around.

Yeah, the high g loads it's a good thing the g is going sort of into your chest, almost directly into your chest as opposed to head-to-toe which is what you experience in a fighter aircraft and that makes it hard to stay conscious.