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NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 completed its sixth commercial crew rotation trip to the International Space Station early on Monday morning after successfully splashing down in a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. The four-person international crew was in orbit for 186 days.
At 12:17 a.m. EDT, cosmonauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg of NASA, Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates, and Andrey Fedyaev of Roscosmos all returned to Earth. The spacecraft and its crew were retrieved by crews on SpaceX recovery vessels. The astronauts will take a flight to NASA's Johnson Space Centre in Houston after reaching land.
The crew traveled 78,875,292 miles during their mission, spent 184 days aboard the space station, and completed 2,976 orbits around Earth. The Crew-6 mission was the first spaceflight for Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev. Bowen has logged 227 days in space over four flights.
Throughout their mission, the Crew-6 members contributed to a host of science and maintenance activities and technology demonstrations. Bowen conducted three spacewalks, joined by Hoburg for two, and Alneyadi for one, preparing the station for and installing two new IROSAs (International Space Station Roll-Out Solar Arrays) to augment power generation for the station.
The crew contributed to hundreds of experiments and technology demonstrations, including assisting a student robotic challenge, studying plant genetic adaptations to space, and monitoring human health in microgravity to prepare for exploration beyond low Earth orbit and to benefit life on Earth. The astronauts released Saskatchewan’s first satellite which tests a new radiation detection and protection system derived from melanin, found in many organisms, including humans.
The Crew-6 mission, which is a part of NASA's Commercial Crew Programme, returned after the launch of NASA's SpaceX Crew-7, which docked to the station on August 27 and began a new lengthy science expedition.
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