After their six-month mission on the International Space Station (ISS), four astronauts from the US, Denmark, Japan and Russia returned safely to Earth. The Crew Dragon spacecraft of the American space company SpaceX landed on Tuesday off the coast of the city of Pensacola in the American state of Florida, the American space agency NASA announced.
Accordingly, all four braking parachutes were opened, allowing the space capsule to land gently.
About half an hour after landing on the surface of the water, the astronauts were taken aboard by a NASA ship. Among those returned was American astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, who completed her first space mission and led the Crew 7 mission. She was accompanied by the Dane Andreas Mogensen, the Japanese Satoshi Furukawa and the Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.
It took the four astronauts more than 18 hours to get from the ISS to Earth. In the more than six months they had spent on the ISS, they had conducted countless scientific experiments. Crew-7 was the seventh routine NASA mission on the ISS conducted using SpaceX spacecraft. The first took place in 2020 and members of the latest Crew-8 mission had already launched to the ISS on March 4.
NASA has not had its own rocket program since 2011 and, in addition to Russian Soyuz rockets, uses the services of Elon Musk’s company SpaceX for flights to the ISS. Another partner of NASA is the American aerospace company Boeing, which is lagging behind in its space project. According to the latest plans, Boeing will complete its first flight to the ISS in May. (sda/afp)
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