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Watch SpaceX’s Crew-1 astronauts plummet to an ocean landing on Wednesday, ending the longest human spaceflight in NASA history – Business Insider Australia

NASA has never flown its own astronauts to and from space for a mission this long. Now SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship must bring them back to Earth.

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A gumdrop-shaped fireball is set to plummet to Earth on Wednesday.
SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spaceship, carrying four astronauts for NASA, is scheduled to plow through the atmosphere at 25 times the speed of sound, deploy four parachutes as it approaches the coast of Florida, then glide to a gentle splashdown in the ocean at about 12:40 p.m ET.
The spaceship, named Resilience, flew to the International Space Station in November, carrying Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins of NASA, along…

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