The SpaceX flight crew has returned to Earth after five months on the International Space Station

The crew of the Crew-5 mission sent into space by a SpaceX rocket on behalf of NASA returned to Earth Saturday after a five-month stint aboard the International Space Station (ISS).

the capsule to bear It touched down in the Gulf of Mexico shortly after 9 p.m. local time (3 a.m. in Paris) off the west coast of Florida, with Japanese Koichi Wakata and Russia’s Anna Kikina on board, as well as NASA’s Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada.

Launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, in October, Crew-5 was the fifth space mission for Koichi Wakata and the first for the other members. Nicole Mann became the first Native American to be sent into space. Before leaving the International Space Station, the crew met up with Crew-6, which departed on the 1st^any March to take charge.

Less than a week ago, a Russian Soyuz rocket took off from Kazakhstan to replace the MS-22 spacecraft, also Russian, which was damaged during docking with the International Space Station.

The three MS-22 astronauts, American and Rossan, were scheduled to return to Earth at the end of March, at the end of a six-month mission, but they will eventually stay there for about a year.

Cooperation on the International Space Station is the latest area in which Washington and Moscow have continued to work together since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine began on February 24.