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'It came alive:' Astronauts recount wild ride home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon - Yahoo News

'It came alive:' Astronauts recount wild ride home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon - Yahoo News

'It came alive:' Astronauts recount wild ride home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon - Yahoo News
Aug 05, 2020 42 secs

astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, home two days from a landmark mission as NASA's first crew to fly a privately built vehicle into orbit, recounted on Tuesday the loud, jarring ride they experienced through Earth's atmosphere before a safe landing at sea.

At a news conference from NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston, their first extensive public remarks since coming home, Behnken, 50, and Hurley, 53, described the tense final moments of their 64-day journey.

The duo endured tremendous, jolting forces as the SpaceX-built Crew Dragon, an acorn-shaped vehicle that had carried them to the International Space Station, fired rocket thrusters to slow its descent for re-entry, then pierced the outer atmosphere.

The two were launched to the International Space Station from Florida on May 31, embarking on a two-month journey to prove the Crew Dragon capsule safe for transporting humans to and from space

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