Shannon Walker, 55, a NASA astronaut, compared in a recent interview the experience of flying the Russian Soyuz spacecraft and the American Crew Dragon.
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According to the American, there are differences, they relate to overloads, different sensations when throwing a parachute, but they cannot be called significant.
There are differences, but they are not very significant. The level of overload in each of them is different, no worse and no better, just different, the same is the case at the return stage – different load, different sensations when throwing a parachute, for example, in Crew Dragon you spend less time under a parachute than in Soyuz …
Shannon Walker noted that landing on the water on the Crew Dragon ship felt a little softer than in the Soyuz capsule while adding that there are many similarities between the ships.
Crew Dragon returned to Earth this Sunday after its first scheduled flight to the ISS. In addition to Shannon Walker, there were NASA astronauts Mike Hopkins and Victor Glover on board, as well as Soichi Noguchi from Japan. They stayed onboard the ISS for six months.
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