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| Crew-12 splashdown. Image credit: NASA/Keegan Barber. |
Splashdown of Crew-12
The SpaceX Crew-12 mission de-orbited and splashed down safely in the Pacific Ocean at 1534 UTC, following their undocking from the International Space Station yesterday. Crew Dragon Freedom returned to Earth with its four crew; American NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, French ESA astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Russian Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. This completes their eight month mission to the station as part of Expeditions 74 and 75. There are now ten people in space; three Americans, three Russians, and one Canadian aboard the ISS, and three Chinese aboard Tiangong. [Source: NASA]
VSS Unity Glide Flight
Virgin Galactic carried out a low altitude glide flight of their SpaceShipTwo VSS Unity today, to provide their pilots with more practice ahead of the first glide tests of their new Delta-class SpaceShip, which are meant to be starting soon. This was overall the 35th flight of Unity. [Source: Virgin Galactic]
Other notes
- TESS reaches 1000 confirmed exoplanets. [Source: NASA]
- American Airlines to equip passenger fleet with Starlink terminals. [Source: American Airlines]
- Starship Flights 15 and 16 pushed back to at least 8th November and 10th December respectively. [Source: SpaceNotices]
- Blue Origin announces new factory in Texas. [Source: Blue Origin]
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