SpaceX with NASA crew is back home  

SpaceX with NASA crew is back home  

Part of: GS Prelims – Science and Technology – Space missions 

In news: 

• Two NASA astronauts returned to Earth in their SpaceX Dragon capsule named Endeavour after successful two-month mission. 
• It was the first splashdown by U.S. astronauts in 45 years, with the first commercially built and operated spacecraft to carry people to and from orbit.  

Do you know? 

• SpaceX’s Crew Dragon craft had delivered Nasa astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and became the first human spaceflight with private collaboration.