It looked like the last scene of a film, the denouement of a long adventure in which the good ones finally prevail. Azure airs and brilliant blue seas provided a perfect background on Tuesday evening when a spacecraft with four people approaches the surface of the planet.
“Just breathtaking views of a quiet, glassy ocean off the coast of Tallahassee, Florida,” noted Sandra Jones, a spokesperson for NASA, co -organized by the Space Agency and SpaceX, whose Dragon Vehicle returned the four astronauts of Orbit.
A drone near the landing site detected incredible images of Crew Dragon Freedom While it slowly descended under four parachutes. Most astronauts from NASA today, outside the small community of spacecraft, are relatively anonymous. But not two of the passengers in it FreedomButch Wilmore and Suni Williams. After nine months of travails, 286 days to be precise, they finally came home.
Dragon continued his stately descent, dropped to 400 meters, then 300 and then 200 above the ocean.
Kate Tice, an engineer of SpaceX on the webcast, noted that Touchdown was on the hands. “We stand for Splashdown in the Gulf of America,” she said.
Ah, yes. The Gulf of America.
That's why we can't have fun things.
A throne of lies
For those of us who have followed the story of Wilmore and Williams closely for the past nine months – and Ars Technica has had his share in exclusive stories about this long and foreign saga – the last weeks before the landing has seen it take a disturbing turn.
