SpaceX Crew Dragon astronauts wrap up 170-day space station visit.
Three NASA astronauts and one from the European Space Agency boarded their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule and undocked from the International Space Station Friday, setting up an afternoon re-entry and splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean east of Jacksonville to close out a 170-day mission.
"It was an absolute pleasure and privilege to serve on the space station for the past six months," Lindgren replied."It was a joy to get to work with you. ... We know that you're going to continue to do amazing things on station, we look forward to seeing you back home as well." "We've been up here in in microgravity for six months," Hines told reporters earlier this week."So as we start feeling those Gs come on, it's going to feel even more extreme than it would in a normal day. I think that's going to be really exciting."
"I'd say besides family and friends and a good shower, I certainly look forward to the opportunity of spending time in nature and just enjoying all the sensations that a natural environment provides," said Cristoforetti, the outgoing station commander. "All of us are going to miss being able to float," Lindgren said."It's a such a bizarre thing and so amazing that our brains are able to adjust to it so quickly. ... It's an amazing way to be able to get around.
Kikina's addition to the crew, and Rubio's seat aboard the Soyuz, were part of a new agreement between NASA and the Russian space agency Roscosmos to resume launching U.S. astronauts aboard Russian ferry ships and to start launching cosmonauts aboard Crew Dragons.
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