This photo, provided by NASA, shows the Spacex Crew Dragon Endurance capsule when entering the Pacific Ocean, off the coasts of San Diego, California, on August 9.
A crew of two American astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a Japanese astronaut returned to Earth on Saturday, after the successful landing of the Dragon capsule of Spacex at the Earness of California, according to the video broadcast by the NASA's American space agency, France Presse reports.
Americans Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Russian Kirill Peskov and Japanese Takuya Onishi spent almost five months in space.
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Their return ends the tenth crew mission on the International Space Station (ISS) performed as part of the NASA Commercial Crew program, created to succeed the spatial shuttles' era through the private industry.
The Dragon capsule of the Spacex company of Multimiliardar Elon Musk burned in the Pacific Ocean at 08:34 Local time (15:34 GMT) after detaching from ISS the day before. Its vertiginal descent was slowed down by the entrance to the terrestrial atmosphere, then by huge parachutes.
The capsule was to be recovered by a Spacex ship and, once raised on board, it is finally open to allow astronauts to go out.
During their stay on ISS, Crew-10 performed a wide range of scientific experiments, studying plants growth and how cells react to gravity.
In March, their departure in space was the subject of special attention, because they had to allow the return of two American astronauts who were blocked in space for nine months.
Originally scheduled for an eight -day mission in 2024, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams have been blocked on ISS last year due to Boeing Starliner space faults.
After 25 years of service in NASA, Wilmore decided to retire, the space agency announced this week.
