After six months in Space, the Crew Dragon capsule of Space X, the one financed 100% by Elon Musk who has now made up his mind to conquer Space as well (he plans to found a city on Mars by 2024), with four astronauts from 'Iss aboard, touched Earth. The journey took about six and a half hours. On board Crew Dragon are the Americans Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker and the Japanese Soichi Noguchi: they had been in space since November.
The landing, after 160 days in space, took place off the coast of Panama City, Florida, and was broadcast live by NASA with amazing images. The four astronauts had been the first on an "operational" mission to be transported to the ISS by the space company of Elon Musk, the billionaire visionary who has become a key partner of NASA.Two other Americans had already made the round trip aboard Dragon in 2020, but it had been a test mission of just two months, the first flight to the ISS launched from the United States since the end of the Space Shuttle missions in 2011, and the first made by a private company with astronauts on board.
This is the first regular mission to be flown to Earth by SpaceX. For the return home, the astronauts used the same Dragon spacecraft, dubbed "Resilience", which carried them into orbit and which SpaceX plans to reuse for other missions, after having reconditioned it.
