{"id":38387,"date":"2025-07-15T11:50:16","date_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/privately-funded-crew-returns-to-earth-in-spacex-crew-dragon-capsule-after-commercial-space-station-visit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-15T11:50:16","modified_gmt":"2025-07-15T11:50:16","slug":"privately-funded-crew-returns-to-earth-in-spacex-crew-dragon-capsule-after-commercial-space-station-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/privately-funded-crew-returns-to-earth-in-spacex-crew-dragon-capsule-after-commercial-space-station-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Privately-funded crew returns to Earth in SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule after commercial space station visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>America&#8217;s most experienced astronaut and three international crewmates plunged back to Earth aboard a SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule early Tuesday, closing out a 20-day commercial flight to the International Space Station with a foggy Pacific Ocean splashdown.<\/p>\n<p>Retired NASA astronaut <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/spacex-peggy-whitson-astronaut-axiom-space-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Peggy Whitson, the U.S. record holder for time in space<\/a><\/span>, Indian test pilot Shubhanshu Shukla, Polish astronaut S\u0142awosz Uzna\u0144ski-Wi\u015bniewski and Hungarian engineer Tibor Kapu undocked from the space station early Monday.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/c961748b-b98b-4ab1-a592-f3e12064a5cb\/thumbnail\/620x349\/afd9b7dfd8252e58d9bbac6508c7e170\/071525-ax4-chutes.jpg#\" alt=\"071525-ax4-chutes.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/c961748b-b98b-4ab1-a592-f3e12064a5cb\/thumbnail\/620x349\/afd9b7dfd8252e58d9bbac6508c7e170\/071525-ax4-chutes.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/c961748b-b98b-4ab1-a592-f3e12064a5cb\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/f22931db7036fdd548034a36650b635d\/071525-ax4-chutes.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Despite a foggy sky, infrared cameras captured dramatic views of the Crew Dragon descending toward splashdown off the Southern California coast under its four main parachutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After nearly a full day coasting around the planet while waiting for the orbit to line up with the re-entry trajectory, the Crew Dragon&#8217;s forward Draco thrusters fired for nearly 18 minutes starting at 4:37 a.m. EDT Tuesday to drop the ship out of orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Plunging back into the discernible atmosphere on a northwest-to-southeast trajectory, the capsule rapidly decelerated in a blaze of re-entry heating before parachutes deployed to lower the ship to a gentle splashdown just west of San Diego at 5:31 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Over the next hour, SpaceX support crews &#8220;safed&#8221; 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to the International Space Station sponsored by Houston-based Axiom Space, which works with NASA to provide privately-funded research trips to the station.<\/p>\n<p>The company charges up to $70 million or so per seat to carry non-NASA astronauts, professional researchers and others to the space station who might otherwise have no other route to orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Axiom Space is using the missions to gain experience as the company presses ahead with plans to build a commercial space station that will provide a destination in low-Earth orbit for NASA and other nations after the International Space Station is retired in 2030.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"embed embed--type-image is-image embed--float-none embed--size-medium\">\n<p>      <span class=\"img embed__content\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/f3adf55f-cc50-422d-af1e-abbbcf68bb9e\/thumbnail\/620x349\/dde968b0abb67ebbd6a9e92865855b8d\/071525-ax4-whitson.jpg#\" alt=\"071525-ax4-whitson.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/f3adf55f-cc50-422d-af1e-abbbcf68bb9e\/thumbnail\/620x349\/dde968b0abb67ebbd6a9e92865855b8d\/071525-ax4-whitson.jpg 1x, https:\/\/assets3.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2025\/07\/15\/f3adf55f-cc50-422d-af1e-abbbcf68bb9e\/thumbnail\/1240x698\/1a09c3c78aa707e2ad2f9621094fed2a\/071525-ax4-whitson.jpg 2x\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/span><figcaption class=\"embed__caption-container\">\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__caption\">Peggy Whitson, America&#8217;s most experienced astronaut, greets recovery crews with a broad smile as she begins re-adjusting to gravity after 20 days in weightlessness. Whitson, 65, has now logged more than 695 days in space across five missions &#8212; three for NASA and two for the company she now works for, Houston-based Axiom Space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>                  <span class=\"embed__credit\"><\/p>\n<p>                SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>                          <\/span><br \/>\n              <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Throughout their two-week mission, Whitson and her crewmates carried out a full slate of science research and technology demonstrations, along with interactive educational events with students and others in the crew&#8217;s home countries. Researchers from 31 countries are helping evaluate data from the Ax-4 experiments and technology demonstrations.<\/p>\n<p>Whitson, a retired NASA astronaut, is the most experienced American space flier, with 695 days and six hours and 48 minutes in orbit during five spaceflights &#8212; three for NASA and two for Axiom Space. 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