The 4 members of NASA’s Crew-7 mission pose for a portrait inside their crew quarters on the Worldwide Area Station. Clockwise from backside are, astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, and Loral O’Hara. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down at 5:48 a.m. ET on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 to finish a six-month mission.
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The 4 members of NASA’s Crew-7 mission pose for a portrait inside their crew quarters on the Worldwide Area Station. Clockwise from backside are, astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa, and Loral O’Hara. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule splashed down at 5:48 a.m. ET on Tuesday, March 12, 2024 to finish a six-month mission.
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4 individuals of NASA’s Crew-7 mission streaked throughout the Midwest and Southern U.S. within the pre-dawn hours Tuesday with a profitable and fiery return to Earth. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule might be seen by individuals who seemed up and watched it zip throughout the darkened sky. Over the course of an hour, the capsule went from 17,500 mph in orbit and plunged via the ambiance to bleed off velocity. It got here to a delicate splashdown within the Gulf of Mexico underneath a cover of parachutes off Pensacola, Fla. capping six months aboard the Worldwide Area Station.
The crew was made up of mission commander and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, the European Area Company’s Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Company’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov. It was the primary journey to area for Moghbeli and Borisov. Furukawa and Mogensen accomplished their second spaceflights. The crew on the science and analysis mission performed greater than 200 experiments. In response to NASA, these included finding out blood samples that, for the primary time, allowed researchers to observe the influence of spaceflight on immune perform in the course of the flight. Beforehand, this might solely be studied earlier than and after a mission. The crew additionally hung out testing particular membranes designed to remove contaminants from wastewater. As NASA and others plan to ship people deeper into area, having a option to filter and reuse water is important to the success of long-range missions. They had been relieved by members of the Crew-8 mission which launched on a SpaceX rocket to the I.S.S. final week. The Crew-8 staff will spend the following half-year aboard the orbital outpost. The rotation is a part of NASA’s Business Crew program. After the shuttle fleet retired in 2011, the company pays business corporations to fly individuals to and from the area station.
The following NASA mission to the I.S.S. is scheduled to be the primary human flight of Boeing’s long-delayed Starliner capsule. It is scheduled for a two-week take a look at mission with a pair of astronauts aboard in Might.