After about six months aboard the International Space Station, an American, a Dane, a Japanese and a Russian returned safely to Earth on Tuesday in a ‘Dragon’ capsule.
The American Jasmin Moghbeli, the Danish ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen, the Japanese Satoshi Furukawa and the Russian Konstantin Borisov landed in the sea off the coast of the American state of Florida with the capsule of the private space company SpaceX of tech billionaire Elon Musk. The American space agency NASA announced this.
This is the repeated time since the beginning of the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, with the resulting strong tensions between the US and Russia, that astronauts from both countries have traveled between the ISS and Earth.
Astronauts spent six months on the ISS
The so-called “Crew-7” had spent about six months aboard the ISS and disconnected from the space station on Monday – about a week after the crew’s successor arrived.
“Crew-8” consists of NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Michael Barratt, their colleague Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin. It is the first space flight for Epps, Grebenkin and Dominick, and Barratt is visiting the space station for the third time.
There are also three other cosmonauts currently aboard humanity’s outpost in space, about 250 miles above Earth.
Source: Krone
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