The two NASA astronauts brought back to Earth on Sunday said they felt they were inside the belly of a beast as it careened into the atmosphere at 17,500 mph. “It came alive,” said mission commander Bob Behnkhen at a virtual press conference held Tuesday in Houston, Texas. Behnken and crewmate Doug Hurley, 53, are best friends in real life and both are married to fellow astronauts. Both men are veterans of the Space Shuttle program, which ended in 2011, and they had been training for five years with SpaceX. Splash down at 15 miles per hour in the Gulf of Mexico felt “pretty firm,” said Hurley, but that was expected.

Source: Hindustan Times August 05, 2020 08:28 UTC