MISSION COMPLETE: Four Crew-5 astronauts are on their way back to Earth. Video shows the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft undocking from the International Space Station early Saturday morning, completing a nearly six-month mission in space.
Two NASA astronauts, a Japanese space veteran and a Russian cosmonaut bid their seven space station crewmates farewell overnight Friday, strapped into their Crew Dragon capsule and undocked for a fiery Saturday night plunge to splashdown in the Gulf of Mexico to close out a 157-day mission.
The Crew-5 astronauts, wearing their SpaceX pressure suits, bid their space station crewmates farewell before boarding a Crew Dragon spacecraft for return to Earth Saturday night. Left to right: cosmonaut Anna Kikina, pilot Josh Cassada, commander Nicole Mann and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata.He added,"we just want to say thank you, and we hope that we made you proud.
Bowen and his Crew-6 colleagues arrived at the lab March 3 to replace Mann, Cassada, Wakata and Kikina. Prokopyev and his two Soyuz crewmates, launched last September, are spending a full year aboard the station in the wake of a micrometeoroid impact that disabled their ferry ship, triggering launch of a replacement spacecraft.
"And to the crew on board the International Space Station, you've got it, make us proud, we'll be following along on your mission. And to our friends and family, thank you for following along and being part of our mission. It has been a privilege to add to the legacy." She closed with the Marine Corps motto:"Semper fidelis."
The capsule's main parachutes were expected to unfurl for the final three-and-a-half minutes of flight before splashdown at 9:02 p.m.
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