The four astronauts from NASA’s sixth SpaceX crew returned to Earth on Monday, after a six-month stay on the International Space Station. The capsule arrived by parachute into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida.
Less than an hour after docking, the capsule was removed from the ocean on a ship. Astronauts Stephen Bowen, Warren “Woody” Hoburg, Russian Andrei Fedyev, and Emirati Sultan Al Neyadi, the first person from the Arab world to spend such a long period in orbit, have returned.
SpaceX has completed the US space agency’s sixth commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station. The international crew of four spent 186 days in orbit.
NASA Administrator Bill Nelson said, “This international crew represents three nations, but together they demonstrated humanity’s shared ambition to reach new cosmic shores. Crew-6’s contributions will help prepare NASA to return to the Moon with the Artemis program, and advance to Mars. And improve life here on the earth.”
The work of this crew has contributed to hundreds of scientific and technological experiments, including studying genetic adaptations of plants in space, and monitoring human health in microgravity to prepare for exploration beyond low-Earth orbit and benefit life on Earth.
Astronauts have launched the first satellite from Saskatchewan to test a new radiation detection and protection system derived from melanin, found in many organisms, including humans.
the mission Crew 6 It is part of NASA’s Commercial Crew Program, and its return to Earth comes after the launch of the spacecraft SpaceX-7 crewWhich docked at the station on August 27, to begin another long-term scientific journey.
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