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Four crew members who flown to the International Space Station (ISS) at the beginning of this year to relieve two astronauts stranded on the left Due to a impressed space capsule, returned to earth on Saturday.
The NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers together with Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia Kirill Peskov, on Saturday morning at 11:33 a.m. ET in a SpaceX capsule in the Pacific off the coast of South California.
It was the first Pacific Splashdown for NASA for 50 years and the third for SpaceX with people on board.
The NASA astronauts last in 1975 in the Pacific during the Apollo-Soyuz mission, the first international space mission, on which the American mission and Soviets occupied.
A SpaceX capsule with four crew members falls on Saturday off the coast of Southern California in the Pacific Ocean. (Keegan Barber/NASA about AP)
The crew started in March and replaced Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who got stuck at the space station for nine months after they arrived after the Boeing Starliner, where they arrived through problems and helium leaks.
The NASA concluded that it was too risky to return it to earth, and the Starliner flew back without crewless, and Wilmore and Williams came home in a SpaceX capsule in March after their replacement arrived.
Wilmore announced his retirement After 25 years with NASA this week.
“We want this mission, our mission, a memory of what people can do when we work together when we explore together,” said McClain, before leaving the space station on Friday and mentioned “some turbulent times on earth”.
The SpaceX crew 10 members of NASA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) Astronaut Takuya Onishi, the NASA astronaut Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov and posed before they returned to the ground. (NASA about AP)
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She said she was looking forward to “nothing to do for a few days”, and her crew members were enthusiastic about hot showers and burgers.
At the beginning of this year, SpaceX decided to move her splashdowns from Florida to California in order to reduce the risk of ruins that fall on populated areas.
After leaving the spacecraft, the crew received medical check before it was flown over the helicopter to meet Houston with a NASA aircraft.
“Overall, the mission was great, happy to have the crew back,” said Steve Stich, manager of the Commercial Crew program of NASA, in a press conference to Splashdown. “SpaceX has done a great job to recover the crew on the west coast.”
Occupation members in the spatial capsule after the splashdown. (Keegan Barber/Nasa about Getty Images)
Dina Contella, deputy manager of NASA’s international space program, added that she was “quite happy to see the crew 10 team on Earth. They looked great and they were fine.”
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She noticed that the occupation circled the earth 2,368 times and traveled more than 63 million miles at the space station during her 146 days.
