After five months on the International Space Station, the Crew-5 mission returns to Earth
Sent into space by a rocket SpaceX On behalf of NASA, the crew of the Crew-5 mission has returned to Earth since Saturday. He will have spent a total of five months in International Space Station (ISS).
The Endurance capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico shortly after 9 p.m. (3 a.m. this Sunday in Paris) off the west coast of Florida, with Japanese Koichi Wakata and Russian Anna Kikina on board, as well as Nicole Mann and Josh Kasada. the NASA.
Nicole Mann, the first Native American in space
Crew-5, launched from Cape Canaveral, in Florida, last October was Koichi Wakata’s fifth space mission and the first for the other members. Above all, it would allow Nicole Mann to become the first Native American ever sent into space.
Before leaving the ISS, the crew met up with the crew of Crew-6, which departed on March 1 from the same location to take over the mission. Less than a week ago, a Russian Soyuz rocket took off from it Kazakhstan Also to replace the Russian MS-22 spacecraft, which was damaged during docking with the International Space Station. The three MS-22 members, an American astronaut and two Russian cosmonauts, were scheduled to return to Earth at the end of March after a six-month mission, but will eventually stay for about a year.
Cooperation on the International Space Station has become one of the last areas in which Washington and Moscow continue to work together since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
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