SpaceX Crew-7 astronauts share the good and bad of spending six months in space
Andreas Mogensen was impressed with how smooth the landing was.
The first European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut (and the first non-American) to serve as a pilot on a US commercial spacecraft, Mogensen and his SpaceX Crew-7 crewmates returned to Earth after a 197-day stay on board from the International Space Station (ISS) on March 12.
Mogensen, during his crew's first post-flight press conference at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston on Monday (March 25), likened their splashdown to "plopping into the water" of a swimming pool while wearing a life jacket.
"What struck me most was the smoothness of the ...