SpaceX Crew Dragon DM-2: US returns to crewed launches (mission)

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SpaceFlightNow has an article where Bob & Doug describe their return to Earth in Endeavour. There's too much good stuff to quote, but here's a taste...

 

https://spaceflightnow.com/2020/08/04/dragon-astronauts-describe-sounds-and-sensations-of-returning-to-earth/

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“As we descended, through the atmosphere, the thrusters were firing almost continuously,” Behnken said. “I did record some audio of it, but it doesn’t sound like a machine, it sounds like an animal coming through the atmosphere with all the puffs that are happening from the thrusters and the atmospheric noise. It just continues to gain magnitude as you descend down through the atmosphere. I think we both really, really noticed that aspect of things.”
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“We were really comfortable coming through the atmosphere even though it felt like we were inside of an animal,” Behnken said.
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