ESA shares pictures of SpaceX Dragon capsule before and after brutal atmospheric re-entry - Republic World

ESA astronaut Matthias Maurer along with three NASA astronauts recently arrived on Earth after spending six months aboard the International Space Station.

SpaceX's Dragon capsule splashed down in the Atlantic ocean with four astronauts on May 6, and like every other spacecraft, it went through the unforgiving atmospheric re-entry. It is the phase, whic… [+2272 chars]

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