This picture supplied by NASA exhibits Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin being helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX restoration ship MEGAN after he, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps landed, within the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Friday,
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4 astronauts returned to Earth on Friday (October 25, 2024) after a virtually eight-month area station keep prolonged by Boeing’s capsule bother and Hurricane Milton.
A SpaceX capsule carrying the crew parachuted earlier than daybreak into the Gulf of Mexico simply off the Florida coast after undocking from the Worldwide Area Station mid-week.
The three People and one Russian ought to have been again two months in the past. However their homecoming was stalled by issues with Boeing’s new Starliner astronaut capsule, which got here again empty in September due to security issues. Then Hurricane Milton interfered, adopted by one other two weeks of excessive wind and tough seas.
SpaceX launched the 4 — NASA’s Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Epps, and Russia’s Alexander Grebenkin — in March. Barratt, the one area veteran going into the mission, acknowledged the help groups again residence that had “to replan, retool and sort of redo the whole lot proper together with us … and helped us to roll with all these punches.”
Their replacements are the 2 Starliner check pilots Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, whose personal mission went from eight days to eight months, and two astronauts launched by SpaceX 4 weeks in the past. These 4 will stay up there till February.
The area station is now again to its regular crew measurement of seven — 4 People and three Russians — after months of overflow.
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Revealed – October 26, 2024 03:15 pm IST
