Astronauts Return To Earth After 5 Months At The International Space Station

One day after leaving the laboratory in orbit, the SpaceX capsule parachute to the Pacific on the shores of Southern California.

Japan’s mother McClain and Nichole Ayers spread Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov. Two NASA astronauts appointed in March replaced. Starliner’s bot demo.

Starliner has kept Butch Wilmore and Artificial Williams at a space station for more than nine months instead of a week. NASA ordered Boeing’s empty -back of the new crew capsule and spent the pair to SpaceX. McClain and the crew left their place shortly after they left. Wilmore since then Retired from NASA.

Before leaving the space station on Friday, McClain noted that “some turbulent times in the world ılan struggling with people.

“We want this task to remind people what can be done when we work together and discover together,” he said.

After returning home in Houston, McClain waited for a few days not to do anything ”. High on the request list of crew friends: hot shower and juicy burgers.

SpaceX was the third pacific jump with people on board, but the first for a NASA crew in 50 years. Elon Musk’s company changed the return from Florida to the California coast to reduce the risk of falling into popular regions. They were the first to experience Pacific Homecomings.

When the NASA astronauts returned from space to the Pacific for the last time, the 1975 Apollo Soyuz Mission was a meeting of orbiting Americans and Soviets.

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