A team of two American astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a Japanese returns to Saturday after the wireless successful of the Spacex dragon capsule in California this Saturday, August 9, according to the video flow transmitted by the space company.
The Americans Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, the Russian Kirill Peskov and the Japanese Takuya Onishi spent almost five months in space.
His return concludes the tenth mission of rotation of the crew of the International Space Station (ISS) carried out as part of the NASA crew commercial program, created to succeed the era of the space ferry when associated with the private industry.
Many scientific experiences
The Dragon Capsule of the Spacex company of the billionaire Elon Musk to Amerri in the Pacific Ocean at 8:34 am local time (3:34 pm GMT) after having separated the day before the ISS.
Its vertiginous descent was braking by the entrance to the atmosphere of the Earth, then by immense parachutes.
The capsule had to be recovered by a Spacex ship and once it rose on board, it finally opened to let astronauts come out.
During his stay in the ISS, the crew called CREW-10 carried out multiple scientific experiences, studying the growth of plants or the way the cells react to gravity.
The episode of the two blocked astronauts
In March, his departure in space had been particularly analyzed because it was to allow the return of two American astronauts trapped in space for nine months.
Initially they left for an eight -day mission in 2024, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams had been blocked since last June in the ISS due to failures on the Boeing Starliner ship that had sent them.
After 25 years of service for NASA, Butch Wilmore decided to retire, said the space agency this week.
Source: BFM TV
