Four crew members flew to the International Space Station (ISS) earlier this year to save two astronauts Left chain He returned to Earth on Saturday by the troubled space capsule.
NASA astronauts Anne McLean and Nicole Ayers, along with Japanese Onishyatakya and Russian Kiril Peskov, splattered into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California at 11:33am ET on Saturday morning.
This was NASA’s first Pacific splashdown in 50 years, and SpaceX’s third splashdown, which was on board.
NASA astronauts were last splattered in the Pacific Ocean in 1975 on the first crew international space mission involving Americans and Soviets.
SpaceX capsules carry parachutes into the Pacific Ocean on Saturday off the coast of Southern California. (Kegan Barber/NASA via AP)
The crew was launched in March and replaced Snie Williams and Butch Willmore. He was stuck on the space station for nine months, intended to be a week-long mission after the Boeing Starliner arrived at Thruster issues and Helium Leak.
NASA concluded that it was too dangerous to return them to capsule Earth, so Starliner sucked back the crew, and Willmore and Williams returned home in SpaceX capsules in March after the replacement arrived.
Wilmore He announced his retirement 25 years from now at NASA this week.
“We want our mission to remind people that when we work together and explore together,” McClain said on Friday that “some turbulent times on Earth.”
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 members Jaxa (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency), astronauts Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, are posing before returning to Earth for Space dragogan creas cre car car car car crease of a Space. (NASA via AP)
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She said she was looking forward to “doing nothing for a few days” when she got home, and her crew was excited about the hot showers and burgers.
Earlier this year, SpaceX decided to switch the splashdown from Florida to California to reduce the risk of being discouraged by the population.
After leaving the spaceship, the crew was medically checked before flying via helicopters and met a Houston-bound NASA aircraft.
“Overall, the mission has become great. “SpaceX did an amazing job of regaining its crew again on the West Coast,” Steve Stitch, manager of NASA’s commercial crew program, told a press conference after the splashdown.
Crew members inside the space capsule after splashdown. (Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images)
Dina Contella, assistant manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, added that she “is very happy to see 10 teams on Earth. They look great and they’re doing great things.”
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She said the crew had brought the Earth into orbit 2,368 times, travelling more than 63 million miles over 146 days at the space station.
