NASA astronauts share Crew Dragon's descend experience: 'Sounds like an animal'

X’s crewed capsule, called Dragon, descended into environment at 17,500 mph on August 2 and  NASA astronauts described craft’s experience as “sounds like an animal.” While  Demo-2 mission was smooth, NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley said y felt “jolts, tremors and rolls” as capsule Endeavour touched down from X's first-ever crewed mission. In a live-streamed conference on NASA Live TV,  mission commander Bob Behnkhen said craft “came alive” off coast of Pensacola, Florida.

Capsule Endeavour had a primary water touchdown, first-ever US ship to descend on coast since 1975. “ atmosphere starts to make ise, you can hear that rumble outside vehicle and as vehicle tries to control, you feel a little bit of that shimmy in your body,” Behnkhen said at a live-streamed conference. “It doesn’t sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through atmosphere with all that all puffs that are happening from thrusters and atmospheric ise,” he added. astronauts described journey down on earth as “deafening”, as vessel carried out sequences jettisoning its “trunk”, according to reports. process of firing parachute was explained as “bone-jarring.” “Very much like getting hit in back of chair with a baseball bat, you kw, just a crack,” 50-year-old astronaut Behnkhen was reported as saying at live online news conference.  

[NASA TV video, astronauts Bob Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley wave during a news conference, Tuesday, Aug. 4, 2020, in Houston. two NASA astronauts returned to Earth on Sunday in a dramatic, retro-style splashdown carried out by Elon Musk's X company]

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Once we descended a little bit into atmosphere, Dragon really, it came alive, Behnken said from NASA's Johnson Center in Houston on NASA Live TV.

NASA initially provided astronauts' information

However, according to reports, astronauts had mentioned that sounds and sensations while terminating  two-month-long Demo-2 with coming down on Earth was “rmal”. Furr, re were at least four flights two astronauts had experienced that employed NASA's w-retired  shuttle. NASA had initially provided  astronauts with audio recordings and or information related to Crew Dragon's first-ever trip to station, on  uncrewed Demo-1 mission in 2019, reports confirmed. While Behnken and Hurley said that journey was a “wild ride”, y hadn’t been able to witness views outside until y were whisked onto X recovery ship GO Navigator and removed from Endeavour, a report confirmed two as saying. NASA, X and Coast Guard had since made plans to introduce changes for a better splashdown in future.  

Almost kind of speechless—Astronaut Hurley said at NASA's digital conference.

Separation of crew service "trunk" was described as a "hit in back of a chair with a baseball bat, a crack” by astronauts at live-streamed conference. Parachute deployment gave "a significant jolt," Behnkhen said. Hurley, on or hand, described re-entry as a ‘pretty demanding environment.” 

[NASA TV video, astronauts Bob Behnken, left, and Doug Hurley laugh during a news conference]

[Provided by NASA, support teams and curious recreational boaters arrive at X Crew Dragon Endeavour craft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley on board in Gulf of Mexico, off coast of Pensacola]

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