NASA Astronaut Felt A Worrying ‘Glitch In The Matrix’ While Returning To Earth On SpaceX Ship

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Astronauts from NASA's SpaceX Crew-5 mission shared their experiences of spending more than five months in space before they returned to Earth earlier this month. SpaceX's Crew Dragon took to the skies in October last year and came back during the second week of March. On board were two NASA astronauts, Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, alongside the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina. Out of the four, only astronaut Wakata had flown to space before, with the remainder experiencing space flight for the first time and describing their journey during a press conference within days after their return.

As part of her opening remarks, cosmonaut Kirkina shared her surprise at how accurately the Russian segment of the International Space Station matched with the simulators on the ground. Her comments, as translated by a translator, shared that:

The first thing that really impressed and surprised me when I got on to the ISS right when I flew through the vestibule is that it's really real, it exists! Here it is. And the second thing is when we got to the Russian segment and I saw everything, I realized that it matches perfectly all of our mockups and all of our simulators and it was really comforting and reassuring because it was like I was seeing something that I had already knew, something that was familiar.

Cosmonaut Kirkina's experiences with the simulator were shared by NASA's Cassada, who was surprised at how precisely the sounds inside the Crew Dragon could match those in a ride that simulates reentry on Earth. He also