![]() In less than an hour, recovery teams had hoisted the heat-scorched Crew Dragon onto a retrieval vessel before opening the capsule's side hatch and helping the four astronauts out by one for their first breath of fresh air in more than 24 weeks. Watkins became the first African-American woman to join a long-duration ISS mission. The crew consisted of NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren, 49, fellow Americans Jessica Watkins, 34, and Bob Hines, 47, as well as Italy's Samantha Cristoforetti, 45, who was commander of their ISS expedition. ![]() EDT (2055 GMT), was carried live by a joint NASA-SpaceX webcast.įreedom began its stay in orbit on April 27. ![]() Splashdown under clear skies, at about 4:55 p.m. NASA astronauts and an Italian crewmate from the European Space Agency, parachuted into the sea at the conclusion of a five-hour autonomous flight home from the ISS. The SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule dubbed Freedom, carrying three U.S. (Reuters) - The fourth long-duration astronaut team launched by SpaceX to the International Space Station (ISS) safely returned to Earth on Friday, splashing down in the Atlantic Ocean off Florida after nearly six months of research aboard the orbital outpost. Create New Watchlist Create Create a new holdings portfolio Add Create + Add another position Close
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