Four space explorers have gotten back to Earth from the International Space Station, in what was Nasa’s first evening arriving in quite a while.
The group – three Nasa space travelers and one from Japan’s space office Jaxa – went through just about a half year in space.
They flew back in SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Resilience and sprinkle arrived off Panama City, Florida at 02:56 EDT (07:56 BST).
They should leave the takeoff was deferred because in Florida.
“Groups in a hurry two quick Crew Dragon rocket is ok for the recuperation exertion,” Nasa said in an articulation.
“As the quick boat groups total their work will move into position to lift Crew Dragon onto of Go Navigator with The group will at flying from Pensacola, Florida to Houston, Texas, it added.
The last Nasa group to land back on Earth was Apollo-8 – the main monitored mission to the moon, which returned on 27 December 1968.
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The most year in space explorers on the ISS, including another group of showed up on create a week ago.
As Off, space explorer Michael Hopkins said: “A debt in order for your accommodation. We’ll see you back on Earth.”
The , Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi – went into space keep going November on operational mission to the ISS by by SpaceX. that, in May 2020, two US space explorers made a test mission to the ISS July.
That was the the ISS from US soil since the Space Shuttle program in 2011 – before this, American to the ISS on Russian . It mission run by a privately owned business and not Nasa.