Four astronauts from four countries return to Earth after six months in orbit

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – Four astronauts from four countries stuck a boost again to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to finish a half-year mission on the International Space Station.

Their tablet streaked around the U.S. in the predawn darkness and splashed into the Gulf of Mexico close to the Florida Panhandle.

NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, a Marine helicopter pilot, led the returning workforce of Denmark’s Andreas Mogensen, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia’s Konstantin Borisov.

They moved into the gap station remaining August. Their replacements arrived last week in their very own SpaceX tablet.

“We left you some peanut butter and tortillas,” Moghbeli radioed after departing the orbiting complicated on Monday. Replied NASA’s Loral O’Hara: “I miss you guys already and thanks for that very generous gift.”

O’Hara has some other few weeks on the house station earlier than leaving aboard a Russian Soyuz tablet.

Before leaving the gap station, Mogensen stated by the use of X, previously Twitter, that he couldn’t wait to listen “birds making a song in the bushes” and likewise craved crunchy meals.

NASA prefers multiple travel options in case of rocket hassle. Boeing will have to get started offering astronaut taxi provider with a two-pilot check flight in early May.

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