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SpaceX’s Crew-5 mission returned to earth safelyOn Saturday night, the company’s “Endurance” Dragon spacecraft touched down off the coast of Florida after a five-month stay on the International Space Station. Aboard the capsule were NASA astronauts Josh Kasada and Nicole Mann, Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Russian astronaut Anna Kikina.
The four craft spent 157 days in orbit during the ISS rotation.As on the Crew-5 mission, Mann, a member of the Wairaki people, It is also the first time Russian astronauts have boarded a US civilian spacecraft, a milestone achieved by NASA and Roscosmos last year as tensions between the US and Russia increased due to the war in Ukraine. It happened.
For Wakata, this flight was the fifth return from space and a Japanese record. The mission was also her second orbital trip for Endurance after the capsule successfully returned the crew to Earth last fall. The spacecraft will return to SpaceX’s Dragon Lair facility in Florida for safety checks and refurbishments before its next flight.
NASA astronaut Frank Rubio flew to the ISS aboard the Russian Soyuz spacecraft MS-22 late last year. After Roscomos determined that MS-22 could only safely transport two people, the Endurance crew temporarily modified the vehicle to carry Rubio in case of an emergency evacuation from the ISS. Did. After Russia sent a replacement Soyuz spacecraft to return Rubio and astronauts Sergey Prokopiev and Dmitry Peterin to Earth, they removed these modifications.