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Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut splashed to Earth early Friday, Oct. 25, after a nearly eight-month science mission at the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX Crew-8 mission ...
Four astronauts have returned to Earth with Elon Musk's SpaceX after issues with Boeing's Starliner delayed their mission. SpaceX Crew-8 splashed down off the coast of Pensacola, Florida at 3:29 a ...
The Crew-9 — carrying Williams, Wilmore, fellow NASA astronaut Nick Hague and cosmonaut Aleksandr Gorbunov — can only leave the space station following a "handover period" with the Crew-10.
The decision was made to return Soyuz MS-22 uncrewed and launch Soyuz MS-23 uncrewed [5] as its replacement. By the time the MS-22/23 crew returned to Earth on 27 September 2023, which was the end of Expedition 69, they had spent more than a year in space due to their mission extension. [6] [7] [8]
Crew members were scheduled to stay aboard the station for approximately 6 days, but the mission was extended due to issues with the spacecraft. Despite months of testing, NASA felt it was not able to understand why the thrusters malfunctioned and decided that it was too risky to return Wilmore and Williams to Earth aboard Starliner.
But that did not mean the astronauts would get the first flight back to Earth. A SpaceX Crew Dragon, on a mission dubbed Crew-8, left the International Space Station on Wednesday, but Williams and ...
The governing bodies also announced changes to the crew manifest: the crew remaining on the station for 12 months and the Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft to return uncrewed. The Soyuz MS-23 spacecraft was launched uncrewed in February, [7] and the crew returned to Earth on 27 September 2023. The original MS-23 crew instead launched on Soyuz MS-24 to ...
Meanwhile, Wilmore and Williams stayed on the space station. NASA reassigned them to its next mission with SpaceX, called Crew-9. They would have a ride home on that spaceship.