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SpaceX Capsule Successfully Brings Four Astronauts Back to Earth After 6 Months on ISS

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SpaceX Capsule Successfully Brings Four Astronauts Back to Earth After 6 Months on ISS

NASA’s live broadcast showed that after six months of busy work on the International Space Station, the SpaceX capsule carrying four astronauts landed near the Florida coast on Monday. Due to the deceleration of the Earth’s atmosphere and four huge parachutes, the Dragon capsule can withstand a dizzying descent with its heat shield.

It landed in the Gulf of Mexico at 10:33 PM Eastern Time (09:03 AM IST Tuesday), marking the end of the “Crew-2” mission. A ship will retrieve the space capsule, and the astronauts on the ship will be taken away by helicopter to return to land. Since arriving on April 24, two Americans, a Frenchman, and a Japanese astronaut have conducted hundreds of experiments and helped upgrade the space station’s solar panels. They boarded the Dragon, known as “Endeavour,” and separated from the International Space Station at 2:05 pm (12:35 am US Standard Time), NASA announced.

Then Endeavour circled the International Space Station for about an hour and a half to take pictures, which was the first such mission since the Russian Soyuz spacecraft conducted a similar maneuver in 2018. Most of the “Dragon” flight is autonomous, and there is a small circular window on the top of its front hatch through which astronauts can point to their cameras. “It’s an honor to enter space on behalf of France again! Next stop, the moon?” Thomas Pesquet from the European Space Agency (ESA) tweeted.

Their activities include recording the earth’s surface to record man-made changes and natural events, planting hachi peppers, and studying worms to better understand human health changes in space. The takeoff of Crew-2 was delayed by strong winds by one day. Bad weather and what NASA called “minor medical problems” also delayed the launch of the next astronauts, the Crew-3 mission, which is now scheduled to launch on Wednesday. Before that, the International Space Station will have only three astronauts-two Russians and one American. SpaceX began to provide astronauts with taxi services to the International Space Station in 2020, ending the United States’ dependence on Russian rockets for nine years after the end of the space shuttle program.

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Broken toilet

The crew also faced the last challenge on the journey home-after detecting a problem with the capsule’s waste management system, they had to wear diapers, forcing it to stay offline. From 12:40 in the evening (11:40 a.m. on Tuesday, U.S. Standard Time), the hatches were closed until water splashed-for about 10 hours, they could not go to the toilet. “Of course, this is sub-optimal, but we are ready to deal with it,” NASA astronaut Megan MacArthur said at a press conference before departure.

“Space flight is full of many small challenges, this is just another challenge we will encounter and deal with in the mission.” SpaceX’s all-tourism crew encountered a similar garbage-related issue during a September flight, which triggered an alert system. NASA later stated that a tube had been degummed and sent urine into the capsule’s fan system instead of the storage tank.

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

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Tom Holland to star alongside Matt Damon in Christopher Nolan’s next, will juggle that with Spider-Man 4 in 2025

Tom Holland, last seen in Apple TV show The Crowded Room last year, has signed his next with Academy Award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan.

Tom Holland is going to have a very busy 2025. As per The Hollywood Reporter, the actor has signed Christopher Nolan’s next, which he will juggle the filming of with that of the long-awaited Spider-Man 4. (Also Read – Tom Holland shares why he left alcohol behind: ‘Struggling without booze…’)

Tom signs Nolan’s next

This will mark the first collaboration between Tom and Christopher. While details of his next directorial aren’t known yet, it’s most likely not to have a contemporary setting. It’ll be either set in the past like, his previous film Oppenheimer (2023), or in the future like Interstellar (2014). Matt Damon, who has worked with Christopher in both, has also come on board his next.

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Christopher’s next will be co-produced by him and his wife Emma Thomas’ banner Syncopy Inc and Universal Pictures, as the two production houses will team up after the Academy Award-winning blockbuster Oppenheimer last year. Prior to Oppenheimer, Christopher collaborated mostly with Warner Bros before having a fallout post the debacle of Tenet (2020).

Warner Bros then went on to produce Greta Gerwig’s musical satire Barbie, which clashed with Oppenheimer at the box office and even outperformed it globally. Warner Bros offered Christopher a cheque for the fees he waived off for helming Tenet during the pandemic. While Christopher graciously accepted the belated remuneration, he still went on to pitch his next to Warner Bros.

Tom’s busy schedule

Tom didn’t have any release this year. His last outing was Todd Graff’s psychological thriller show The Crowded Room on Apple TV last year. He’ll juggle the filming of Christopher Nolan’s next and Spider-Man 4 in 2025. Tom has been playing the superhero ever since Russo Brothers’ 2016 blockbuster Captain America: Civil War. He’s slipped into the Peter Parker shoes post that for three standalone films and two Avengers movies. Spider-Man 4 will be helmed by Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings director Destin Daniel Cretton.

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As Tom’s girlfriend and co-star Zendaya will be busy filming Spider-Man 4 in 2025, she’ll reprise her role of Chani in Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi spectacle Dune 3 only in 2026. Meanwhile, Tom is also likely to make an appearance as Spider-Man in Russo Brothers’ Avengers: Doomsday, which will go on floors in the spring of 2025.

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