Four astronauts from 4 countries caught a elevate back again to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to conclude a half-year mission at the International Place Station.
Their capsule streaked across the U.S. in the predawn darkness and splashed into the Gulf of Mexico around the Florida Panhandle.
NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, a Maritime helicopter pilot, led the returning crew of Denmark’s Andreas Mogensen, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia’s Konstantin Borisov.
They moved into the room station very last August. Their replacements arrived last 7 days in their individual SpaceX capsule.
“We still left you some peanut butter and tortillas,” Moghbeli radioed right after departing the orbiting advanced on Monday. Replied NASA’s Loral O’Hara: “I miss out on you guys presently and thanks for that pretty generous reward.”
O’Hara has a further number of months at the room station ahead of leaving aboard a Russian Soyuz capsule.
Ahead of leaving the place station, Mogensen reported through X, formerly Twitter, that he couldn’t wait to hear “birds singing in the trees” and also craved crunchy foodstuff.
NASA prefers many journey possibilities in scenario of rocket difficulties. Boeing need to commence delivering astronaut taxi assistance with a two-pilot take a look at flight in early May.
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