The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Department of Science Education. Remaining aboard the space station are three Americans, three Russians and one Japanese. “Getting the first few hugs when we get back is really going to be awesome,” Hines told reporters earlier in the week. NASA planned to hustle them to Houston once they were off SpaceX’s recovery ship and back on solid ground. The NASA App Development Challenge (ADC) is a coding challenge in which NASA presents technical problems to middle and high school students seeking student contributions to deep space exploration missions. SpaceX delivered their replacements last week.īefore checking out, the astronauts said they couldn’t wait to have a cold drink with ice, eat some pizza and ice cream, take a shower, revel in nature and, of course, reunite with their families. Until 2004, astronauts were sponsored and trained exclusively by governments, either by military agencies or by civilian space agencies. More than 560 people have been trained as astronauts. The capsule parachuted into the ocean, just off Jacksonville, Florida, carrying NASA astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, the first Black woman to complete a long-term spaceflight, and the European Space Agency’s Samantha Cristoforetti. This is an alphabetical list of astronauts, people employed and trained by a manned spaceflight program to command, fly as a pilot, or serve as a crew member of a manned spacecraft.
SpaceX and NASA finally gave the all-clear on Friday, and the three Americans and one Italian departed the International Space Station, their residence since April. Wet and windy weather across Florida delayed their homecoming. (AP) - Four astronauts returned to Earth in a SpaceX capsule Friday, ending their nearly six-month space station mission with a splashdown in the Atlantic off Florida.
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