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Two US Astronauts to Come Home on SpaceX Ship on August 2

The two U.S. astronauts who entered the International Space Station (ISS) on board the first crewed U.S. spacecraft in nearly a decade will leave for Earth on August 1, NASA Chief said Friday.

“Splashdown is targeted for Aug. 2. Weather will drive the actual date. Stay tuned,” tweeted the US space agency’s administrator Jim Bridenstine.

Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley took off from Florida on SpaceX 's Crew Dragon spacecraft on May 30, becoming the first astronauts to reach the ISS on board a commercial spaceship under contract with NASA, reports AFP.

It was the first time a crewed spaceship was launched from the United States since 2011 when the space shuttle program was ended.

Between then and this mission, American astronauts traveled exclusively on Russian rockets.

Eventually, Dragon will bring four astronauts to the ISS on a regular basis, from NASA and affiliate space agencies in Canada, Japan, Europe and possibly Russia.

This will be the first time that the SpaceX spacecraft has successfully completed an uncrewed test run last year with the astronauts on Earth.

It will splashdown in the Atlantic like the Apollo capsules did in the 1960s and 1970s.


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