B | Two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut undocked from the International Space Station Sunday and headed for an overnight splashdown off Florida's East Coast early Monday to wrap up a six-month stay in orbit.Strapped into their SpaceX Crew Dragon "Endeavour" spacecraft, Crew-6 commander Stephen Bowen, pilot Woody Hoburg, cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and UAE crewmate Sultan Alneyadi undocked from the station's forward Harmony module at 7:05 a.m. ET to kick off a 17-hour flight back to Earth.Crew-6 (clockwise from top): Pilot Woody Hoburg, cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, commander Stephen Bowen and United Arab Emirates astronaut Sultan Alneyadi. NASA "Before we get busy, we just want to say wow!" mission control radioed a few minutes before undocking. "Can you believe it's already time to leave? We can't. ... You've done an incredible job, and to say it's been a pleasure to support you guys in this mission would be an understatement." "Thank you very much," Bowen replied. "It's been a real pleasure and an honor to be here for this expedition. We're coming up on 23 years of continuous occupation of the International Space Station, which is absolutely amazing. Just a real privilege to be a part of it."If all goes well, the Crew Dragon will execute a 16-minute de-orbit thruster firing starting at 11:24 p.m. ET. The "burn" will slow the spacecraft by 252 mph, just enough to drop it back into the lower atmosphere on a southwest-to-northeast trajectory.
Splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean east of Jacksonville, Florida, is expected at 12:17 a.m. ET Monday."We're definitely looking forward to our return, and for me as a rookie flyer, the final part of that unique life experience (of) decelerating from 17,500 miles an hour down to hopefully a great splashdown," Hoburg said last week.A SpaceX team will be standing by to pull the spacecraft aboard a company recovery ship and assist the crew members getting out of the cabin as they begin readjusting to the unfamiliar tug of gravity after a half year in weightlessness.Before departing the space station, Bowen, a former submariner, said he most looked forward to "the nice ocean air and peaceful calm seas. That'll be really nice to get back to."
Hoburg said he was looking forward to a "real shower." Alneyadi said he couldn't wait to rejoin friends and family, along with enjoying "a real hot cup of coffee." As for Fedyaev, "I think my dream is a bed for good sleeping. I can lay on one side. Another side. My back. Sleeping!"After initial medical checks aboard the recovery ship, all four fliers will be flown to shore by helicopter. A NASA jet then will carry them back to Houston and the Johnson Space Center for debriefing and reunions with friends and family.Left behind in orbit were three Soyuz crew members -- station commander Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio -- and four Crew Dragon fliers launched August 26 to replace Bowen and company: Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.NASA astronaut Frank Rubio, upper left, Soyuz commander Sergey Prokopyev, upper right, and flight engineer Dmitri Petelin will close out an extended yearlong mission when they return to Earth on September 27. Rubio will set a new record for the longest single flight by an American astronaut. NASA Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio were launched to the station last September and are wrapping up a marathon 371-day mission.They originally planned to spend six months in space, but their Soyuz ferry ship was disabled by a major coolant leak last December. The Russians opted to send up a replacement spacecraft, and the crew's mission was extended an additional six months.A fresh Soyuz crew — commander Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub and NASA astronaut Loral O'Hara — is scheduled for launch from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on Sept.15.Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio will undock and return to Earth 12 days later. In so doing, Rubio will set a new U.S. record for the longest single spaceflight by an American astronaut.
Launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on March 2, the Crew-6 fliers will have spent 185 days and 22 hours off planet, circling the globe 2,976 times while traveling 78.9 million miles through space. At splashdown, Bowen, the only space veteran on the crew, will have logged 227 days in space across four missions.Over the course of their mission, the Crew-6 astronauts welcomed seven visiting vehicles, including two unpiloted Cargo Dragon spacecraft, two Russian Progress supply ships, a Northrop Grumman Cygnus cargo carrier and two piloted Crew Dragons.They also carried out three spacewalks. Bowen and Hoburg ventured outside twice to install new roll-out solar blankets and Alneyadi joined Bowen for a third excursion to retrieve a failed antenna package and to carry out other maintenance."It's certainly been the experience of a lifetime, and a real honor to get to spend six months, six incredibly short-feeling months, living and working aboard this incredible orbiting outpost," Hoburg said before departing the station. "I think we got a lot done."
Bill Harwood has been covering the U.S. space program full-time since 1984, first as Cape Canaveral bureau chief for United Press International and now as a consultant for CBS News. He covered 129 space shuttle missions, every interplanetary flight since Voyager 2's flyby of Neptune and scores of commercial and military launches. Based at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, Harwood is a devoted amateur astronomer and co-author of "Comm Check: The Final Flight of Shuttle Columbia."
C | 网球巡回赛官网赛后称,“25岁的张之臻在首盘失利后迅速恢复,逆转击败最受欢迎的主场选手瓦瓦索里,赢得生涯的第三个挑战赛单打冠军”。中国小将你追我赶关于中国男网的好消息连连:吴易昺在上月底结束的ATP网球挑战赛美国印第安纳波利斯站决赛中问鼎,以15连胜的成绩完成本赛季挑战赛三连冠。“这位冉冉升起的中国新星照亮本赛季的ATP挑战赛”,ATP官网赛后称。
D | 前青少年世界第一吴易昺在印第安纳波利斯赢得个人第4个ATP挑战赛冠军后,世界排名创职业生涯新高(第174位),这个来自中国的22岁年轻人将目光投向世界前100——一个特定的数字。中国男网最高排名纪录是张之臻在2019年11月创造的世界第136位。张之臻同样发挥稳定,他在近期获得一连串挑战赛亚军并多次跻身4强,此次又在科尔代农斯站夺冠。
E | 凭借这张成绩单,张之臻从吴易昺手中拿回中国男网一哥的位置,即时排名上升至第161位,与吴易昺形成你追我赶的良性竞争格局。值得一提的是,吴易昺、张之臻携手拿到今年美网资格赛的参赛资格,即将踏上更高舞台。
F | “这是多么有体育精神的行为!”17岁的小将商竣程来自体育世家,他的父亲是前国足成员商毅,母亲则是乒乓球混双世界冠军邬娜。
G | 商竣程的上升轨迹与吴易昺、张之臻类似。
H | 虽然今年只是商竣程转入职业后的第一年,但他在球场上的进步有目共睹,世界排名已从本赛季开始时的第666位升至第241位,创个人新高。前世界第一、智利网球名宿里奥斯近日在采访中对商竣程赞赏有加,他认为,商竣程的反拍和发球比西班牙新星阿尔卡拉斯还出色,如果商竣程明年打入世界前150,他也不会太意外。除了赛场的亮眼表现,商竣程在美国莱克星顿挑战赛中的一个善意举动也成为媒体关注的对象。美国体育杂志《网球》称,首轮比赛中,商竣程曾将一名中暑的小球童及时抱到场边休息,他不仅赢得这次比赛,还因为这份善良俘获大批球迷,“这是多么有体育精神的行为!”ATP官网也为商竣程的行为点赞:“中国少年在莱克星顿挑战赛中反应十分迅速……如果你是一个需要帮助的球童,那么你会很希望自己正在工作的场地上有商竣程的存在。”与中国女网还有明显差距中国男网正在一步步完成突破,但与早已在国际赛场上打出名堂的中国女网相比,他们还有很长的路要走。从世界排名来看,中国男网目前仅有吴易昺、张之臻两人跻身单打前200名,商竣程和20岁的布云朝克特分别进入前300和400名。此外,中国男网在公开赛年代尚未取得大满贯正赛首胜。
I | 而中国女网军团当下位列世界女单前100名的选手就有张帅、郑钦文、王欣瑜、王曦雨和朱琳5人,还有李娜、郑洁、晏紫、孙甜甜和张帅等6位解锁大满贯成就的金花。
K | 对于本赛季存在感颇高的吴易昺、张之臻和商竣程等中国男子网球选手来说,他们需要持续提升各项能力,通过出战更高级别的比赛,让全世界看到中国男子网球运动的崛起。新加坡《联合早报》称,商竣程对自己的职业规划和未来目标有清晰的认知,他决心迎难而上,努力成为像“塞尔维亚天王”德约科维奇那样能力全面的球员,已经转入职业的商竣程能否帮助中国男网实现突破,令人期待。
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