Monday, March 13, 2023

SpaceX Returns Four Astronauts To Earth

Hawthorne, California-based SpaceX successfully returned four astronauts to earth from the International Space Station on Saturday, after a five month deployment to the ISS. NASA said that ASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann, Japan's Koichi Wakata and cosmonaut Anna Kikina of Russia landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Tampa, Florida at 9:02 p.m. EST on Saturday. The astronauts were recovered--along with the SpaceX Dragon capsule--by the SpaceX recovery ship, the Shannon.