A SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule carrying NASA Crew-5 mission astronauts undocked from the International Space Station today to make its way back to Earth.
NASA today announced that the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocked from the International Space Station’s Harmony module carrying Crew-5 astronauts, on the verge of completing a nearly six-month-long science mission.
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The SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft is carrying NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Koichi Wakata, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina. It undocked from the Harmony module at 2.20 AM EST (12.50 PM IST) today.
The Crew-5 mission launched atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on October 5, 2022, and the spacecraft docked with the space station the next day.
Apart from the four astronauts who returned on the Crew Dragon spacecraft, three astronauts are expected to ride home in a Soyuz spacecraft that rode empty to the space station. It replaces another Soyuz spacecraft that sprang a coolant leak when it was docked to the space station.
The Crew-6 mission launched in a similar fashion from the Kennedy Space Center on March 2, carrying NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, and UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi. The crew-6 mission docked with the International Space Station the very next day.
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