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SpaceX may have to delay the end of its historic NASA astronaut mission as a major storm threatens its ocean splashdown – Business Insider Australia
NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley, who made spaceflight history on May 30 by becoming the first people to launch to orbit aboard a SpaceX vehicle, might see their weekend homecoming plans thrown to the wind.
- SpaceX just got NASA’s approval to land the company’s first-ever space mission carrying people, called Demo-2, back on Earth.
- But the ocean splashdown of two NASA astronauts aboard SpaceX’s ship, called Crew Dragon, may need to wait for a tropical storm to clear out.
- NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley rode to space aboard SpaceX’s ship on May 30 and docked to the International Space Station a day later.
- The astronauts can’t land until at lea…
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