Crew-10 returns after 5 months in space

A crew consisting of four individuals for nearly five months concluded at the International Space Station, and they set out in the Pacific Ocean off the California coast under the umbrella of umbrellas on Saturday in the same SpaceX capsule that launched NASA mission of 10 crew To the station Again in March.

The capsule took about 17 hours to make the trip home, as it witnessed the temperatures of re -entering about 3000 degrees Fahrenheit because it caused the atmosphere after overcoming Friday with ISS.

NASA AN McLean and Nicole Aires, Japan Space Agency (Jacqua) Takoya Unishi, and Russia Rosamess for the cinema of the human body.

"We got to achieve a lot of really amazing operational things. We got to some amazing views, and we had some large abdominal laughs and a great time together," Nicole Nicole Aires, the mission pilot, said.

This was the first space mission of Erez and her colleague in the crew Peskov. The second trip was to the station for Maccine and UNIchi.

Their alternatives, Employed 11He arrived at the station a week ago. NASA Zina Kardan and Mike Fink, along with the pioneer of the Jacqua Kimia Yue and Russian astronauts, Oleg Platonov, will spend nearly six months on the orbits laboratory that conducts scientific experiments and maintenance.

This task was characterized by 12 Time Spacex, which launched NASA astronauts to ISS. In 2020, the private company started Space pioneers at the station As part of the agency’s commercial staff program, Russia’s dependence on horse riding to the station is completed Space shuttle program retires In 2011.

There has been a continuous human presence at the space station since October 31, 2000, but NASA and its international partners are planning to retire from ISS at the end of the contract. NASA hopes that commercial companies will launch new space stations for the Agency’s astronauts in the next decade.

"We all realize that we may not be able to do this again," McLean, crew leader 10, said before her departure. "We were very composed in the last days of understanding what we should be part of it."

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