NASA’s SpaceX Crew-5 successfully finished the organization’s fifth commercial crew rotation trip to the International Space Station on Saturday after safely splashing down in their Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Tampa, Florida. The four-person international crew was in orbit for 157 days.
At 9:02 p.m. EST, NASA astronauts Nicole Mann and Josh Cassada, JAXA astronaut Koichi Wakata, Roscosmos cosmonaut Anna Kikina, and other space travellers returned to Earth by parachute-assisted splashdown. The spacecraft and spacefarers were retrieved by crews on SpaceX recovery vessels. The astronauts will take a flight to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston after reaching land.
