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Astronauts return to Earth in SpaceX splashdown after 5-month ISS mission | Space News

Astronauts return to Earth in SpaceX splashdown after 5-month ISS mission | Space News

The landing marks a successful end to their mission on board the International Space Station to help stranded pilots. Four astronauts have returned to Earth after hurrying to the International Space Station (ISS) five months ago to relieve stranded test pilots of Boeing’s Starliner. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast on Saturday, a day …

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4 space station fliers return to Earth with Pacific Ocean splashdown

4 space station fliers return to Earth with Pacific Ocean splashdown

Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese flier and a Russian cosmonaut plunged back to Earth on Saturday, safely splashing down in the Pacific Ocean, west of San Diego, to wrap up a five-month mission to space. Strapped into SpaceX’s Crew Dragon Endurance, commander Anne McClain, pilot Nichole Ayers, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi and cosmonaut Kirill Peskov gently splashed down at 11:33 …

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NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown

NASA to Provide Live Coverage of Crew-10 Return, Splashdown

NASA and SpaceX are targeting no earlier than 12:05 p.m. EDT, Thursday, Aug. 7, for the undocking of the agency’s SpaceX Crew-10 mission from the International Space Station. Pending weather conditions, splashdown is targeted at 11:58 a.m., Friday, Aug. 8. Crew-10 will be the first mission to splash down off the California coast for NASA’s Commercial Crew Program. NASA astronauts …

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