Four astronauts have returned to Earth, each completing their first long-duration spaceflight on the International Space Station (ISS).
NASA’s Stephen Bowen and Warren “Woody” Hoberg, UAE’s Sultan Alneyadi, and Russian Federal Space Corporation Roscosmos’ Andrei Fezyaev (collectively SpaceX’s Crew 6) ) landed on the company’s Dragon spacecraft Endeavor at 12:00. 17:00 a.m. EDT (04:17 GMT) on Monday (September 4) in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. Of the four, only Bowen had flown in space before.
“When I came here six months ago, it was a new experience for all of us,” Bowen said during a short farewell ceremony at the station on Thursday, Aug. 31. “I’ve been to space before, but never on a long-duration mission. This was a really great experience and a great opportunity to see these amazing crews in action. ”
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have Released on March 2ndthe landing of the Crew-6 astronauts ended a 186-day mission in which they served as flight engineers for Expeditions 68 and 69 on the International Space Station.
They were originally scheduled to return on Sunday morning (September 3), but bad weather extended their stay in orbit by one day.
“This is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime experience, and I am truly honored to have spent these incredibly short six months living and working on this incredible orbiting base,” Warren said at the same ceremony. “I think we’ve accomplished a lot. We started with SpaceX. [Commercial Resupply Services or CRS] 27 soon, a freight vehicle packed with science. Then SpaceX was born. [CRS] 28 Mission was welcomed as well. Visiting the Axiom crew on board. ”
“We did three spacewalks between Crew-6. We docked on the Cygnus.” [cargo] vehicle. We’re doing a lot of maintenance and we’re hoping to leave the space station in a little bit better shape than when we started,” Warren said.
The four astronauts departed the space station on Sunday, and Dragon Endeavor autonomously detached from the Harmony Node’s space-facing port at 7:05 a.m. EDT (11:05 GMT). It was.
This flight was not only al-Neyadi’s first flight, but also the first long-term expedition by Arabs and Emiratis.he’s just Second astronaut to fly in UAE, after a short week-long mission to the space station by Hazza al-Mansoori in 2019. Prince Sultan Al Saud of Saudi Arabia was the first Arab to go into space, when he was launched on a NASA space shuttle in 1985.
“We’ve been able to build good working relationships with a lot of people around the world, and it’s been really great, especially for my region,” Alneyadi said. “I come from a region where human spaceflight has been suspended for over 30 years, and I felt an obligation to show what is happening on the space station. In spreading enthusiasm to our region, I felt an obligation to show what is happening on the space station. I think it was a small boost.”
Mr. Alneyadi said, Crew-6 Zero Gram Indicatora small stuffed toy of the UAE astronaut program’s mascot Suhail, who also returned to Earth on the Dragon on Monday.
Fezyaev is Russia’s second cosmonaut and the first Russian to intentionally fly into space. Returning from space to landing site. His flight aboard the SpaceX spacecraft was part of a seat exchange agreement between NASA and Roscosmos.
SpaceX recovery boats, including Megan, named after NASA astronaut Megan MacArthur, one of the first women to fly on the SpaceX Dragon, will be positioned near the landing site to collect the spacecraft and its crew. immediately stood by to assist in the recovery of the personnel. From the water.
After Crew-6 returns to Earth, the space station’s 69th mission will include NASA astronauts Frank Rubio and Jasmin Moghberg, and European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen. He will be joined by Japan Aeronautical Research and Development Agency (JAXA) cosmonaut Satoshi Furukawa, Roscosmos cosmonaut Sergei Prokopyev, and Dmitry. Peterin and Konstantin Borisov. Expedition 70 will begin in late September when Russia’s Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft departs from the station carrying Prokopyev, Peterin and Rubio. The latter set a new US record of 371 days for a single space mission.
Crew-6 was SpaceX’s sixth crewed rotation flight for NASA, seventh crewed spaceflight in support of the U.S. space agency, and ninth crewed spaceflight in the company’s history. Crew 6 marked: Endeavor’s fourth flightpreviously shuttled the Demo-2, Crew-2, and Axiom-1 missions to and from the space station.
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