Four astronauts from NASA’s Crew-10 mission have left the International Space Station (ISS) after completing a five-month stay as part of a crew rotation mission. They began their return to Earth on Friday aboard a SpaceX Dragon capsule, aiming for a splashdown off the United States West Coast on Saturday morning.
The crew, which includes U.S. astronauts Nichole Ayers and Anne McClain, the mission commander, Japanese astronaut Takuya Onishi, and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, boarded the capsule on Friday afternoon. They are undertaking a 17.5-hour journey back to Earth, with the planned landing in the Pacific Ocean near the California coast scheduled for 11:33 a.m. ET (1533 GMT) on Saturday.
Crew-10 launched to the ISS on 14 March, replacing the Crew-9 team, which featured NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams. The Crew-9 astronauts had travelled aboard Boeing’s Starliner capsule.
Earlier this week, Wilmore announced his retirement from NASA after a distinguished 25-year career. He flew four different spacecraft and spent a total of 464 days in space. He also played a key role as a technical adviser to Boeing’s Starliner programme, alongside Williams, who continues to serve in NASA’s astronaut corps.
NASA confirmed that the Crew-10 astronauts are bringing back “important and time-sensitive research” conducted in the ISS’s microgravity environment. During their 146-day mission, they completed over 200 scientific experiments, contributing valuable data to ongoing space and science projects.
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