Welcome home, Crew-5! 🚀
After five months on the ISS, the four members of NASA's SpaceX
#Crew5 mission—including NASAAstronauts Nicole Mann and astro_cassada—safely returned to Earth last weekend. Crew-5 and their Dragon Endurance spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico at 9:02 p.m. EST on Saturday, March 11 (0202 UTC March 12).
Over their 157 days in space, Crew-5 orbited the Earth more than 2,500 times, went on five spacewalks, and contributed to more than 100 scientific experiments and scientific demonstrations. Our astronauts grew protein crystals for medical research, tended our "space garden" to prepare for distant long-term missions, talked with children (and adults) around the world, and helped prep a new set of roll-up solar arrays to boost the power of our orbiting laboratory.
After being retrieved by recovery teams from SpaceX and NASA, Crew-5 arrived in Houston earlier today (March 13). Our Crew-6 astronauts, who lifted off from NASAKennedy earlier this month, ha...