The astronauts attended their first media conference call on Wednesday after NASA’s Crew-3 mission returned from the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this month. In this case,NASA astronauts Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, Raja Chari and ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer share their six months of experience in the orbital space lab and share a voyage on the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Crew-3 is SpaceSec’s third commercial crude mission to fly astronauts to the International Space Station and bring them back to Earth via the Crew Dragon spacecraft. The first U.S. space shuttle was launched after the end of the era. The first two groups shared their experiences on the manned spacecraft Crew Dragon.
As part of the return journey, NASA astronaut Chari shares how he returned. In an interview with Hollywood actor Tom Cruise, his colleague Victor Glover expands his account by describing living and working on the International Space Station. During his speech, the astronaut shared that he hears background noises while staying at the International Space Station.
Chari builds it by describing the transition from experiencing the space station to traveling home on Earth. As the crew dragon traveled to Earth at 17,500 miles per hour, he was most fascinated by the revival of the human senses.
The astronaut explained this in response to the question of what it would be like to return to Earth in a crew dragon and backup of four major parachutes:
So there are different stages like re-entry, preparation for entry, then entry one, entry two, all of which have different stages. , But since you are sitting in a closed vehicle nearby, you can hear all the valves, you can hear the propeller pressure change, so this is a very interesting experience, especially if you have a lot of background on the space stationFanYou do not hear the propellant burning, you do not hear these things. So when you get back to Crew Dragon, you can hear it all start, it’s so beautiful, it’s reviving your senses, when Gs starts to appear, it adds to the audio dynamics. Then as the air increases, you slow down, you feel gravity, you hear the sound of the air, like a big swiss, you see almost constant pink glow from the plasma, so all your senses are active, and they come. Alive again when you are in microgravity. So your brain processes all this information.
So I think it will add to this incredible experience that you know more than you have ever experienced. Then for parachutes, there is a set of backup systems. I mean including manual backups and hardware switches in the control panel. No, I think you are asking about something like a retro rocket system that is going to launch at the last minute, but there are basically two stages of failure and repetition. It has barometric altitude and GPS altitude, and as I said, you can activate the parachute yourself if all else fails. So there are a few ways to deploy the parachute, and four backups are inherently unnecessary. You know, we ‘ve seen those things before, it’s a logging parachute or something we’ve tried, or even the whole parachute, it still works well. So the design has some repetition and I think it has been a very smooth journey so far. You know when it comes to landing, I’m experienced multiple ways to land, but I thought it would fly in the wind, but it was like being pushed back. The landing was incredibly smooth and that … I was very happy.
Raja Chari is not the only NASA astronaut to describe SpaceX flying in space. Thomas Marshburn, a senior astronaut who flew on the space shuttle, Russian Soyuz and crew dragon, shared that it takes little effort to fly a spacecraft.
In response to a question, he explained that it is difficult for a dragon to fly back to Earth.
On the way back we were basically in an observation role. The system’s automated procedures, at least for us, seem to be correct and very accurate. So most likely, we are monitoring, we know what needs to happen, and we have the tools to monitor what is happening. We wondered what to do if the next step did not succeed. Therefore, as Commander, Raja is adept at leading the entire team to complete the task. We are going to move on to the next step of re-entry, here is everything we are going to do if things do not go as planned, so we can take advantage of this training, but it is a fairly smooth process.
Later, Marshburn shared his thoughts on spending the rest of his life in space with his family.
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