This picture provided by NASA shows the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft while descending with NASA astronauts mother McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aviation Agency (Jaxa) astronaut takuya onishi and Roscosmos Cosmonaut Takuya (JAXA). Photo Loan: AFP
An international team of four astronauts returned home on Saturday after about five months at the international space station and returns to a SpaceX capsule safely.
US astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russian cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, the spacecraft, California coasts at 8:14 pm (1534 GMT) jumped.
The return points to NASA’s commercial crew’s space station under the commercial crew program of NASA, which was created to achieve the end of the 10th crew’s rotation mission and the space shuttle period by partnership with the special industry.
The Dragon Capsule of the billionaire Elon Musk’s SpaceX company allocated from the International Space Station (ISS) at 2215 GMT on Friday.
According to NASA, when these capsules re -enter the Earth’s atmosphere, they warm up to Fahrenheit (1,925 Celsius Celsius) up to 3,500 degrees.
The atmospheric re -introduction – then the distribution of large parachutes when the capsule approaches the world – slows down from 17,500 miles per hour (28,100 kilometers) per hour.
After the capsule jumped, it was rescued by a SpaceX ship and withdrew to the ship. However, at that time, the astronauts were able to breathe again for the first time in the months.
The crew will now fly to Houston to reunite with their families.
During their time at the space station, plant growth during their time, how cells reacted to gravity, and the effect of micro gravity on human eyes, conducted numerous scientific experiments.
– ‘bitter sweet’ turn –
NASA Deputy Director Sean Duffy praised the successful duty.
“Our crew tasks, long -term building blocks, human discoveries are pushing the limits of possible.” He said.
McClain said that his goodbye to ISS is “bitter sweet” because he may never be able to return.
“Every day, this task depends on people from all over the world,” he wrote.
He continued: “depends on the government and commercial organizations, depending on all political parties and for years and decades that have not changed for decades.”
NASA last month, US President Donald Trump’s comprehensive efforts to correct the federal labor force of the workforce caused by about 20 percent of the workforce – about 3,900 employees – he said.
Trump, in the meantime, gave the Moon and Mars priority to the crew tasks.
The fact that the crew-10 came into space in March allowed the two US astronaut to return home after unexpectedly stuck to the space station for nine months.
When it was released in June 2024, Butch Wilmore and Artificial Williams had to spend only eight days in a test of Boeing Starliner’s first crew.
However, the spaceship has developed provocation problems and left them in space for an uncertain time, not suitable for back flying.
NASA announced this week that Wilmore decided to retire after 25 years of service at the US Space Agency.
Last week, US astronauts Zena Cardman and Kimiya Yui of Japan and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Platonov boarded a six -month mission to ISS.
Published – 10 August 2025 04:10 IST
