Historic NASA-SpaceX mission begins journey home from International Space Station

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NEW: After six months in space, four astronauts on a historic NASA-SpaceX mission have started their journey back to Earth.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, topped with the Crew Dragon capsule, is readied to carry four astronauts on the first operational NASA commercial crew mission at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla., Nov. 13, 2020.

Three NASA astronauts -- Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover and Shannon Walker -- and Soichi Noguchi of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are making the journey home. They launched into orbit Nov. 15, 2020, in what was the first operational crewed flight for the Crew Dragon capsule as part of NASA's commercial crew mission, and SpaceX's second-ever crewed flight to space.NASA crew-2 walks out for launch from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., April 23, 2021.

The crew is in"great health" for the return flight, NASA said. Ahead of Saturday's undocking, they were packing science freezers filled with research samples, personal items and emergency hardware in the Resilience spacecraft. Glover, the crew's pilot, expressed"gratitude, wonder, connection" after celebrating his 45th birthday in space on Friday.

 

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I'm glad to see this, because it's the very start of the space industry.

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Brain exposure to cosmic rays is more dangerous than previously thought.

3 AM splashdown, talk about red eye.

I sure hope they brought me back something from the International Space Station Gift Shop!!!!

Biden Country is literally in social chaos, and resources r being used to do pseudo scientific BS in space, its funny

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