# @nasa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CpvYToMpQG8
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/4750735-nasa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-03-13T19:09:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** NASA (@NASA) — https://gondola.cc/NASA

## Caption

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, have taken their place on the ISS, starting our latest science expedition to help humanity reach new heights.

Image description 1: The Dragon Endurance spacecraft and its four parachutes descend through the night sky, lit up by a blue spotlight coming from the ground.

Image description 2: A person in a black wet suit jumps from the Dragon Endurance spacecraft after helping secure it to its recovery ship, which is in the process of lifting it from the water.

Image description 3: Astronaut Josh Cassada, wearing his white flight suit and sitting on his recovery stretcher, waves with a smile on his face as SpaceX and NASA staff check him post-splashdown.

Image description 4: Astronaut Nicole Mann (the first Indigenous woman astronaut to visit space), wearing her white flight suit and lying on her recovery stretcher, gives a thumbs-up to the camera.

Image description 5: The four members of Crew-5, sitting in their seats on Dragon Endurance, give thumbs-ups and smiles to the camera immediately after being recovered from the Gulf of Mexico.

Credit: NASA/Keegan Barber

#NASA #Space #SpaceX #SpaceStation #InternationalSpaceStation #Dragon #Astronaut #JAXA

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