Astronauts return to Earth with SpaceX after 5 months at the International Space Station
By Staff Reporter•Source: HimalayanTimes
Four astronauts, including NASA's Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan's Takuya Onishi, and Russia's Kirill Peskov, returned to Earth on Saturday after a five-month mission aboard the International Space Station. Their SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off Southern California. They had launched in March to relieve two NASA astronauts stranded on the ISS for over nine months due to malfunctions with Boeing's Starliner capsule. This marked SpaceX's third Pacific splashdown with people, and the first for a NASA crew in 50 years.