SpaceX Crew-1 Dragon returned to Earth today!

Crew-1 Dragon (L-R): Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Soichi Noguchi

The crew of SpaceX Dragon Resilience splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico this morning just before 3am May 2, 2021.  The returning astronauts are Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi.  Launched November 15, 2020, they spent 168 days in space, all but one of those days on the International Space Station.  They completed 2688 orbits of Earth and traveled 71,242,199 statute miles.   

Soyuz TMA-19 launched 2010

Soyuz TMA-19 crew (L-R): Douglas Wheelock, Shannon Walker, Fyodor Yurchikhin

Mission patch

Soyuz TMA-19, launched June 16, 2010 (America time), carried members of Expedition 24 to the International Space Station.  Its crew consisted of Commander Fyodor Yurchikhin (Roscosmos), Shannon Walker and Douglas Wheelock.  The spacecraft remained docked to the ISS for Expeditions 24 and 25.  The crew returned to Earth November 2010.

Happy birthday, astronaut Shannon Walker!

Shannon Walker, born June 4, 1965 in Houston, Texas, went into space aboard Soyuz TMA-19 to the International Space Station in June 2010.  She participated in Expeditions 24 and 25 before returning to Earth in November after more than 163 days in space.

She is scheduled to return to the ISS in August of this year aboard SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft USCV-1.