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Space X returns 4 helped the smiling astronauts out of the the hospital. The fire department the boy’s grandfather, Ezra has damage to
astronauts to Earth, capsule one by one and onto stretchers transported 12 of those patients and his liver, lunch and swelling on his brain.
ending 200-day flight as they started reacclimating to Earth’s said 11 of them underwent CPR en He also apparently has heart damage.
gravity. It was the third crew sent to the route to the hospital. Eight fatalities
space station under NASA's fledgling were confirmed immediately after
public-private partnership with SpaceX, the event, the department said. Thir-
the rocket company formed in 2002 by teen of the people taken to the hos-
billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, who pital remain there; four have since
also founded electric car maker Tesla Inc. been discharged. Five of the people
The returning team was designated "Crew hospitalized were under the age of
2" because it marks the second "operation- 18, Houston mayor Sylvester Turner
al" crew that NASA has launched aboard said at a press conference Saturday.
a SpaceX capsule since resuming human A ninth victim died Thursday, her
our astronauts splashed down off the space flights from American soil last year, family’s attorney announced, after
Fcoast of Florida aboard their SpaceX after a nine-year hiatus at the end of the she had been declared brain dead
Crew Dragon capsule, capping off their U.S. space shuttle program in 2011. The from her injuries. Turner said the
six-month stay in space. Their journey replacement team, "Crew 3," was origi- victims who died ranged in age from
kicked off Monday just after 2 pm ET when nally slated to fly to the space station at 14 to 27. One was 14, one was 16,
the astronauts strapped into the Crew the end of October, but that launch has two were 21, one was 22, two were
Dragon capsule, which had remained at- been delayed by weather problems and an 23, one was 27, and one’s age re-
tached to the International Space Station unspecified medical issue involving one mains unknown. Zero people were
since it arrived with the crew in April. The of the four crew members. reported missing, he said. Suddenly
spacecraft spent nearly nine hours slowly we had several people down on the
manoeuvring through orbit, approach- Travis Scott ground, experiencing some type of
ing the thick inner layer of Earth's atmo- Astroworld Festival cardiac arrest or some type of med-
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sphere before the Crew Dragon lit up its Dead ical episode, and so we immediate-
thrusters to safely slice into the air, deploy ly started doing CPR, and moving
parachutes and splash down in the Gulf people right then, and that’s when
of Mexico around 10:30 pm Monday. Re- I went and met with the promoters,
al-time infrared thermal video imaging and Live Nation, and they agreed to
captured a glimpse of the capsule streak- end early in the interest of public
ing like a meteor through the night sky safety.” All Saturday performances
over the Gulf minutes before splashdown. were cancelled following the Fri-
Two NASA astronauts on the flight - pilot day night tragedy, and 13 people
Megan McArthur, 50, and mission com- remained hospitalised on Sunday
mander Shane Kimbrough, 54 - were the ravis Scott's concert that was as authorities continued investiga-
first two out of the vehicle. They were Trecently held in Houston cre- tions into what caused the deadly
followed by Japanese crew mate Akihiko ated a massive buzz among the fans event. Among those who remain in
Hoshide, 52, and fellow mission special- when around eight people were hospital is a nine-year-old boy, Erza
ist Thomas Pesquet, 43, a French engi- killed on the spot due to the massive Blount who has been put in a med-
neer from the European Space Agency. crowd surge at the event. The con- ically induced coma. According to
Applause was heard from the flight con- cert was a part of a two-day event,
trol center as the four main parachutes the Astroworld Music Festival, that
inflated above the capsule, seen drifting began on 5 November 2021, on Fri-
down toward the Gulf surface and slow- day. About 50,000 people gathered
together for the show and many of
ing to about 15 miles per hour (24 kph)
before dropping gently into the calm sea. them were seriously injured during
"Endeavour, on behalf of SpaceX, wel- the Astroworld concert. At least
come home to planet Earth," a voice from eight people died as a result of a Let us HeLp protect Your dreAms.
the SpaceX flight control center in sub- “crowd surge”, with many more
urban Los Angeles was heard telling the sustaining injuries. Officials trans-
crew as a safe splashdown was confirmed. ported 17 audience members to the
"It's great to be back," one of the astro- hospital, with 11 in cardiac arrest. Mohammed Rahman, Agent
nauts radioed in reply. The return capped Concerns about overcrowding were
199 full days in orbit, the longest ever for raised early in the day, with reports Mohammed Rahman Agency Inc
an entire U.S.-launched crew, according of people hopping turnstiles and 1685 Church St Ste 209, Decatur
to Kathy Lueders, associate NASA chief fences in order to attend the sold-
for space operations. It surpassed the out festival without tickets. A terri- Decatur, GA 30033
previous 168-day record set by the prede- fying stampede was caused in which
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as planned to brake the capsule’s speed, crowd began heading to the front of
then four more replaced them, with one the stage by punishing each other
remaining scrunched for nearly a min- while Travis Scott was performing.
ute before inflating. All chutes eventual- Though it is still unclear as to why
the crowd began pushing towards
ly deployed, plunking Crew Dragon into
calm waters. “The return looked spotless,” the front of the stage, one of the peo-
Kathy Lueders, NASA’s space operations ple present at the event stated that
chief, said in remarks on the agency’s the situation was hectic from the
livestream. She said engineering teams beginning. The concertgoers further
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