American astronauts Douglas Hurley and Robert Behnken, who returned on Sunday to Earth on the spacecraft Crew Dragon, called the crew of the International space station (ISS) a superteam. They declared it during performance in space flight Center Johnson in Houston (state of Texas).
Hurley and Behnken were on Board of the ISS along with Russian cosmonauts Anatoly Ivanishin and Ivan Wagner, as well as NASA astronaut Chris Cassidy. “We were given the wonderful opportunity to get into a super-team on Board the ISS with Chris, Anatoly and Ivan, they showed real concern for us”, – quotes TASS of the Behnken.
Crew Dragon, SpaceX made the first manned launch from Earth in late may. He delivered into orbit astronauts Hurley and Behnken, who had been on ISS for two months. They helped the station crew to carry out work to replace old batteries, and took part in various experiments at the us segment of the ISS. Saturday, August, Crew Dragon in automatic mode undocked from ISS, and on the following day splashed down off the coast of Florida.
the Crew Dragon Launch was the first in nine years of manned flight from the United States on a space ship locally. NASA has stopped in 2011. Since then, the Russian “Unions” brought Americans into orbit.
