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‘It came alive’: Astronauts recount wild ride home on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon – The Jakarta Post – Jakarta Post

US astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley recounted the loud, jarring ride they experienced through Earth’s atmosphere before a safe landing at sea.

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US 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.
Their splash-down on Sunday in the Gulf of Mexico off Florida – a mode of return for human spaceflight last used by NASA 45 years ago – capped the first launch of astronauts from US soil in nine years.
At a news conference from NASA’…

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