A pumped Elon Musk has welcomed the safe return of two NASA astronauts aboard his company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft. The SpaceX capsule splashed down on Sunday.
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk on Sunday celebrated the safe return of NASA’s Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken aboard the company’s Crew Dragon spacecraft in its first-ever astronaut mission. The Demo-2 mission was also the first to launch and land in U. S. territory since 2011, and the first splashdown since 1975. Just five hours after coming down in the Atlantic Ocean after a two-month stay on the International Space Station, NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken, together with NASA administrator Jim Bridenstine and Musk, appeared at a special event at Ellington Field in Houston, Texas. Clearly relieved to see the safe return of the two astronauts in what was a hitch-free mission, a pumped Musk quipped, “I’m not very religious but I prayed for this one.
