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Leave a ReviewRaja Chari, Tom Marshburn, Kayla Barron, and Matthias Maurer returned to Earth aboard one of the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft.
Marshburn was part of a panel for Crew-3 members that just splashed down last week following their stay on the International Space Station as part of a. During the live conference, Marshburn said that while the NASA, SpaceX and Russian-made ships he's flown in are all different, they also feel more or less the same during launch and while re-entering the atmosphere because of simple physics.
"SpaceX was quite a bit smoother [especially] through staging," Marshburn said. "[Landing in] the Shuttle was very smooth. We almost didn’t know we we landed. But distinct differences were enjoyable to observe at both launch and landing."Marshburn also said re-entry is a "ton of fun," which is probably what makes him an astronaut. Just hearing him describe the lengthy freefall after re-entry would make anybody else's stomach do flips.
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