Four astronauts return from the space station in a private Space X capsule

By 02/05/2021 Portal

Four astronauts returned this Sunday from the International Space Station aboard the capsule Resilience, developed by the space transportation company SpaceX, founded by the American-nationalized South African tycoon Elon Musk. The crew landed in the Gulf of Mexico, in a night return that had not occurred since the return of the components of the Apollo 8 mission on December 27, 1968, according to NASA has highlighted it's a statement. The four astronauts – the Americans Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and the Japanese Soichi Noguchi – have spent almost six months on the International Space Station, which orbits the Earth at an altitude of about 400 kilometers.

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