SpaceX Dragon capsule, Endurance, with Crew-5 members returned to Earth 03:02 WAT on 12 March, 2023 after 157 days in the ISS.
The mission has NASA astronauts Josh Cassada and Nicole Mann as well as Russian cosmonaut Anna Kikina and Japan’s Koichi Wakata.
Crew-5 was launched on October 5, 2022. The mission makes Mann the first Native American woman to travel to space and Kikina the first Russian to travel aboard a SpaceX craft.
They were replaced on 3 March, 2023 by Crew-6 members — NASA’s Woody Hoburg and Stephen Bowen, the United Arab Emirates’ Sultan Al Neyadi and cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev — in the ISS.
SPACEX CREW-6 LAUNCHED
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-6 mission was launched to the International Space Station, ISS, from the Kennedy Space Centre in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on 2 March, 2023.
The four astronauts onboard are: NASA’s Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and the United Arab Emirates Sultan Al-Neyadi.
Al-Neyadi will be the first Emirati and first Arab astronaut to stay for a long period in space as his mission is planned for six months.
It is Dragon’s sixth operational human spaceflight mission to the ISS.
