NASA shows landing map of the Crew-9 Mission, with Starliner astronauts

THE NASA published on Tuesday (18) a map of Places that the Crew-9 mission spacecraft, which is bringing back to the Earth the Starliner Test Trill Boeing vehicle, will pass to your landing in the water .

According to the US space agency, during the day it will not be possible to see the capsule with the Crew-9 mission, but during the live broadcast of reentry on Earth, the ship may be accompanied according to the schedules expected for the trip.

At the end of the flight that brings back to Earth the two astronauts that had been trapped in space for almost nine months will be broadcast live on NASA channel on Tuesday (18) from 17h45 (Brasília time). Water landing is expected to take place at 6:57 pm (Brasília time).

This step is considered the most dangerous of any flight back from space. Achieving the atmosphere while traveling more than 22 times the sound speed warms the outside of the spacecraft to more than 1,900 degrees and can trigger a communication blecate.

After the vehicle reaches the ocean, a Spacex rescue ship will remove the spacecraft from the water, and the astronauts will be able to breathe the air air again after nine months. See here what happens in the body of astronauts who spend so much time in space.

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This content was originally published in NASA shows Mission Crew-9 Pousing Map, with Starliner astronauts on the CNN Brazil website.



Source: CNN Brasil

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