Earlier this year The rest A troubled space capsule returns to Earth on Saturday.
NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, along with Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kirill Peskov crossed the Pacific Ocean on Saturday at 11:33 a.m. ET on the Southern California coast of Spacex Capsule.
It was NASA’s first Pacific Splash in 50 years and SpaceX’s third Pacific Plashdown with the people on board.
NASA astronauts last splashed the Apollo-Soyuz mission in the Pacific in 1975, the first international space mission involving Americans and the Soviet Union.
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A space capsule with four crew parachutes entered the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Southern California on Saturday. (Keegan Barber/NASA via AP)
The crew launched in March to replace Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, who were trapped in the space station for nine months, a week after the Boeing block where they encountered thruster issues and helium leaks.
NASA concluded that it was too risky to bring them back to the capsule’s Earth, so Starliner flew back to the crew, Wilmore and Williams returned home in March after SpaceX capsule replacement.
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“We want this mission, mission, a reminder of what we can do when we work together,” McLean said before leaving the space station on Friday.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-10 member Jaxa (Japan Aeronautical and Space Exploration) astronauts Takuya Onishi, NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, created SpaceX Dragon Crew SpaceCraft before they returned to Earth, which created the international space in SpaceX Dragon SpaceCraft, which is located in the international space. (NASA via AP)
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Once home, she said she was looking forward to “doing nothing for a few days” and her crew was excited about hot showers and burgers.
Earlier this year, SpaceX decided to switch their splashes from Florida to California to reduce the risk of debris in densely populated areas.
After leaving the spacecraft, the crew underwent medical examinations and then flew through a helicopter to meet with the NASA aircraft heading to Houston.
“Overall, the mission is going well and it’s great to get the crew back,” Steve Stich, manager of NASA’s commercial crew program, said in a Splashdown news conference. “SpaceX has done a great job of resuming crew again on the West Coast.”
After the splash, the crew inside the space capsule. (Keegan Barber/NASA via Getty Images)
Dina Contella, deputy manager of NASA’s International Space Station Program, added that she was “happy to see the crew 10 team back on Earth. They looked great and performed well”.
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She noted that the crew revolved around the Earth 2,368 times in the 146-day space station and traveled more than 63 million miles.
