Astronaut NASA Shannon Walker compared flight at the Russian Soyuz Spacecraft and American Crew Dragon. It is reported by RIA Novosti.
Walker noted that they did not find significant differences. “The level of overload in each of them is different, no worse and no better, just different, the same at return stage – different loads, different sensations in the emission of parachute, for example, in [Crew] Dragon spend less time under a parachute than in” Union “,” she said.
Astronaut added that the Crew Dragon planting to the water seemed to her “a little softer” landing of the Russian “Union” capsule.
May 2 reported that Crew Dragon with four astronauts on board successfully driven on Earth. According to the application, astronauts Viktor Glover, Michael Hopkins, Shannon Walker and Socyti Nogi returned to Earth after a semi-annual scientific mission aboard the International Space Station (ISS).
On April 17, three members of the ISS crew returned to Earth in the descent apparatus of the piloted spacecraft “Union MS-17”. Among the Arrivals of the Cosmonavtov, Russians Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Cherchkov, as well as American Kathleen Rubins.