NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli drives team of space travelers from Denmark, Japan, and Russia back to Earth.
Four space explorers from four nations got a lift back to Earth with SpaceX on Tuesday to end a half-year mission at the Worldwide Space Station.
Their case streaked across the U.S. in the predawn obscurity and sprinkled into the Bay of Mexico close to the Florida Beg.
NASA’s Jasmin Moghbeli, a Marine helicopter pilot, drove the returning team of Denmark’s Andreas Mogensen, Japan’s Satoshi Furukawa and Russia’s Konstantin Borisov.
They moved into the space station last August. Their substitutions showed up last week in their own SpaceX case.
“We left you some peanut butter and tortillas,” Moghbeli radioed in the wake of leaving the circling complex on Monday. Answered NASA’s Loral O’Hara: “I miss you folks as of now and gratitude for that extremely liberal gift.”
O’Hara has an additional couple of weeks at the space station prior to leaving on board a Russian Soyuz container.
Prior to leaving the space station, Mogensen said by means of X, previously Twitter, that he was unable to hold back to hear “birds singing in the trees” and furthermore wanted crunchy food.
NASA favors numerous movement choices if there should be an occurrence of rocket inconvenience. Boeing ought to begin furnishing space traveler taxi administration with a two-pilot experimental drill toward the beginning of May.
- Mission: International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 69/70
- Duration: 6 months (arrived last August)
- Crew Leader: Jasmin Moghbeli (NASA, US)
- Crew Members:
- Andreas Mogensen (Denmark, ESA)
- Satoshi Furukawa (Japan, JAXA)
- Konstantin Borisov (Russia, Roscosmos)
- Return Vehicle: SpaceX capsule
- Landing Site: Gulf of Mexico near the Florida Panhandle
- Replacement Crew: Arrived last week on a separate SpaceX capsule
Interesting Facts:
- Moghbeli is a Marine helicopter pilot.
- The crew left behind a gift of peanut butter and tortillas for the remaining crew members.
- Andreas Mogensen is looking forward to hearing birds singing and eating crunchy food upon return.
- NASA utilizes SpaceX and Boeing for crew transportation to and from the ISS.