![]() Rounding out the crew was Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina, who also wore a big smile as she left the capsule.Įach of the four astronauts was helped on to a stretcher after existing the Dragon and wheeled away for a medical check, a standard practice for returning crews of long-duration space missions. Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata was the next to leave, and was all smiles as he was pulled from the capsule. ![]() He was followed quickly by NASA astronaut Nicole Mann, commander of the Crew-5 mission. You can read our full wrap of SpaceX's Crew-5 astronaut splashdown now.Ĭrew-5 pilot Josh Cassada of NASA was the first to exit the capsule. See full coverage of SpaceX's Crew-6 mission at the International Space Station here.Ĭrew-6 Launch video| Launch photos | SpaceX | Crew Dragon | Falcon 9Īll four astronauts have been helped out of SpaceX's Crew Dragon Endurance, marking an end to the Crew-5 mission to the International Space Station for NASA. The Crew-6 mission is on the International Space Station right now and is made up of: the first United Arab Emirates astronaut to perform a long-duration mission (Sultan Al-Neyadi), NASA astronauts Warren "Woody" Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, and Andrey Fedyaev of Russian space agency Roscosmos. On board a SpaceX Crew Dragon are NASA's Nicole Aunapu Mann and Josh Cassada, as well as Japan's Koichi Wakata and Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina. The Crew-5 mission is departing the ISS no earlier than Saturday (March 11), 2023 for a targeted splashdown later that evening. Above is live mission audio from the Crew-6 flight to the station. ![]() SpaceX has launched astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) and returned them to Earth for NASA since 2020. The company's current astronaut missions for NASA are Crew-6, which launched on Maand Crew-5, which launched on Oct. ![]()
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