The crew is currently in a 'soft quarantine' with their families before heading into a more stringent quarantine on Saturday ahead of the launch.
U.S. astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken completed the feat after splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico aboard the SpaceX Dragon.
The next batch of NASA-SpaceX astronauts includes a Space Force colonel, a Black pilot leaving Earth for the first time, a woman who has logged nearly 4,000 hours in space and a Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut.The crew is comprised of NASA astronauts Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker as well as JAXA astronaut Soichi Noguchi.
NASA astronauts Shannon Walker, Victor Glover, and Mike Hopkins, and astronaut Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency - who constitute the crew of NASA's Crew-1 mission, inside SpaceX's Crew Dragon spacecraft. The crew is slated to stay aboard the ISS for six months and conduct science experiments and help with maintenance on the multibillion dollar orbiting laboratory.
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