Half a year in space.  Astronauts have returned to Earth

Just over a week ago, on August 26, the crewed Crew-7 mission launched from the NASA Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The goal was to replace the current International Space Station staff. The new astronaut team includes the American Yasmine Mokbeli of NASA, Andreas Mogensen of the European Space Agency from Denmark, Satoshi Furukawa of Japan, and Konstantin Borisov of Russia.

The project called Crew-7 is a joint initiative between NASA and SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk. This was SpaceX’s seventh manned mission. The first astronauts were sent into orbit by SpaceX in May 2020.

Another change of staff International Space Station It will be held in September When two Russians and an American return home. Their stay at the station will last for about a year, twice as long as planned. The reason for the mission extension was the failure of the Soyuz capsule, which led to the need to send a new spacecraft to the International Space Station, the Associated Press reported.

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