The 4 astronauts of NASA’s Crew-4 mission have returned from the International Space Station and splashed down safely off the coast of Florida. The crew of NASA astronauts Bob Hines, Kjell Lindgren, and Jessica Watkins, plus European Space Agency astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, traveled on a SpaceX Dragon craft that splashed down at 4:55 p.m. ET on Friday, October 14.

The crew launched for the area station in April this 12 months, working in orbit for nearly six months earlier than handing over duties to the just lately launched Crew-5. Following splashdown, the 4 have been taken to NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.

“Welcome home Crew-4! This international crew has spent nearly six months on the International Space Station conducting science for the benefit of all. Their work aboard the orbiting laboratory will help prepare future explorers for future space missions,” stated NASA Administrator Bill Nelson in a assertion. “Working and living on the space station is the opportunity of a lifetime, but it also requires these explorers to make sacrifices, especially time away from loved ones. Kjell, Bob, Jessica, and Samantha, thank you for your contributions over the past six months to science, innovation, and discovery!”

Some of the work finished by the crew throughout their keep on the area station contains performing spacewalks to take care of and improve the station, in addition to engaged on scientific analysis. These projectors included engaged on human well being points like researching enhancements to astronaut diets and testing their listening to, in addition to seeing the consequences of microgravity circumstances on ageing, plus analysis into applied sciences reminiscent of engaged on a concrete-like materials comprised of lunar soil and taking a look at how fuels burn in microgravity.

With the 4 Crew-4 members returned to Earth, the present crew on the ISS contains the 4 Crew-5 members, plus two Russian cosmonauts and yet one more NASA astronaut who arrived on the area station in a Soyuz MS-22 spacecraft final month.

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