Cape Canaveral: Four astronauts with NASA’s SpaceX mission have returned to Earth late on Saturday night. His capsule landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the Florida coast near Tampa. Crew members from the US, Russia and Japan spent nearly five months aboard the International Space Station. This mission had left in October last. Astronauts led by NASA’s Nicole Mann left the space center on Saturday morning. Nicole is the first Native American woman to fly in space.
According to the AP report, Nicole said that she can feel the wind of the earth and the scent of fresh grass on her face. They are eager to taste their delicious dishes. Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata wished to eat sushi, while Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina wished to drink tea in a real cup. NASA scientist Josh Cassada wants to bring a pet dog for his family. Now the space center has three astronauts from America, three from Russia and one from the United Arab Emirates.
What is NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission
In October last year, SpaceX sent four astronauts to the International Space Station under the Crew-5 mission. This was the first time that SpaceX, a company led by Twitter owner Elon Musk, had sent its Russian astronauts into space. The Crew-5 mission was launched on October 5 on a Falcon 9 rocket from the US agency’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. On reaching here, Crew-5 had to do more than 200 science experiments.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 mission members
As a result of an agreement signed in 2022 between NASA and Russia’s space agency to conduct joint flights, Anna Kikina, 38, became the first Russian to fly on a US spacecraft in 20 years. Along with her, NASA Flight Commander Nicole Aunapu Mann, the first Native American woman in space, NASA pilot Josh Cassada, 49, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, 59, who was on his fifth space mission, were also on board.
