Eighth commercial mission crew lands in Florida after eight months on ISS

Four crew members on the eighth commercial space mission NASA and SpaceX landed this Friday in Pensacola.on the northwest coast of Florida (USA), after almost eight months on the International Space Station (ISS).

Four travelers, NASA astronauts Matthew Dominic, Michael Barratt and Jeanette Eppsand Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkinleft the orbital station last Wednesday.

According to NASA, travelers spent a total of 232 days aboard the ISS. after takeoff on March 3 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

POT reported this Friday that the mission SpaceX Crew 8 successfully landed at 7:29 GMT today, and recovery teams quickly secured the spacecraft after crashing into the sea and assisted the astronauts on egress.

Now the crew will go to NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texasand the Dragon spacecraft will return to the SpaceX facility at Space Force Station in Cape Canaveralin Florida for inspection and restoration for future missions.

During the mission, crew members They traveled almost 160 million kilometers. and made 3760 orbits around the Earth.

The astronauts spent new scientific research to advance human exploration beyond low Earth orbit and benefit human life on Earth.

Among them with stem cells develop organoid models for studying degenerative diseases, study How does fuel temperature affect the flammability of a material? and study how spaceflight affects astronauts’ immune function.

This mission received assistance on September 29 at the ISS. Crew 9, which this time carried only two travelers.NASA astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Gorbunov will leave seats open for the return of two Boeing Starliner astronauts.

Crew 9 will return to Earth next February Barry “Butch” Wilmore and Sunita “Suni” Williamstwo astronauts were “trapped” on the orbital station of Boeing’s first manned mission that failed.

Wilmore and Williams They planned to spend just over a week on the ISS, where they arrived last June; But after technical problems with the device that could not be resolved, NASA decided that they would remain on the ISS until the return of the Dragon in February 2025.

These commercial flights began in 2020 and allowed The US is sending astronauts again from the United States after the cancellation of the space shuttle program in 2011.

Since the last shuttle flight Atlantis Into Earth orbit in 2011, NASA was forced to use only Russian launch systems such as Soyuz to put its astronauts into orbit.