Beijing time:2021-09-19 03:28
[NTDNewsSeptember192021Beijingtime]Four SpaceX passengers who stayed in space for 3 days landed in the Atlantic Ocean outside Florida, USA on the evening of the 18th, successfully achieving the first orbit of the earth without professional astronauts. Task.
SpaceX said in a live YouTube video that the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft named “Resilience” further reduced its descent speed with the assistance of four large parachutes. Finally, It landed on time in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after 7:00 p.m. local time, and a responding vessel immediately proceeded to deal with it.
Reuters and other media reported that the first parachute of the Tenacity was opened and the descent speed was reduced to about 24 kilometers per hour. There was a burst of applause from the SpaceX flight control center in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. When the cabin successfully touched the water, the control center again There was cheering. (Click to watch the video)
Jared Isaacman, the chief executive of Shift4 Payments Inc, the e-commerce company that funded SpaceX’s first civilian space mission and the commander of the mission, said: “What a wonderful journey! And we are just getting started. .”
As the Tenacity descended through the atmosphere, violent friction generated high temperatures, and the temperature outside the cabin soared to 1927 degrees Celsius. Even if the temperature inside the cabin rises, the design of the four astronauts’ flight suits can keep them cool.
This space journey called Inspiration4 is the first unofficial mission to send all civilians into space orbit. In addition to Isaacman, the other three are 51-year-old geoscientist Sian Proctor and 29-year-old. Hayley Arceneaux, the “Medical Officer”, and Chris Sembroski, the 42-year-old mission “expert”.
The Tenacity launched on the 15th and reached an altitude of 585 kilometers after 3 hours. It is deeper into space than the International Space Station and the Hubble Space Telescope. ) Since the end of the Apollo moon landing program in 1972, human beings have been the farthest from the earth.
(Editor in charge: Lu Yongxin)
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