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Earth calling: SpaceX capsule carrying NASA crew to land August 2 – Aljazeera.com
The splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean will cap NASA’s first crewed mission launched from US soil in nearly 10 years.
The NASA astronauts who travelled to the International Space Station in SpaceX’s first crewed flight in May are expected to return to Earth on August 2 after spending two months in orbit, a NASA spokesman said on Friday.
US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley will gear up for the final benchmark test of SpaceX’s so-called Demo-2 mission: A coordinated splashdown somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean that will cap NASA’s first crewed mission from US soil in nearly 10 years.
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