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Subj: NASAâ€Ös SpaceX Crew-7 Finishes Mission, Returns to Earth
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The SpaceX Crew Dragon Endeavour spacecraft, with NASA astronaut Jasmin
Moghbeli, KI5WSL, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen,
KG5GCZ, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi
Furukawa, KE5DAW, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov aboard,
splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on
Tuesday, March 12, 2024. Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov are
returning after nearly six-months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard
the International Space Station.
The Crew-7 mission lifted off
https://www.nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-spacex-crew-7-launches-to-international-space-station/
at 3:27 a.m. on Aug. 26, 2023, on a Falcon 9 rocket from NASAâ€Ös Kennedy
Space Center in Florida. About 30 hours later, Dragon docked
https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2023/08/27/spacex-crew-7-mission-docks-to-stations-harmony-module/
to the Harmony moduleâ€Ös space-facing port. Crew-7 undocked at 11:20 a.m.
Monday, March 11, to begin the trip home.
Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa, and Borisov traveled 84,434,094 miles during
their mission, spent 197 days aboard the space station, and completed 3,184
orbits around Earth. The Crew-7 mission was the first spaceflight for
Moghbeli and Borisov. Mogensen has logged 209 days in space over his two
flights, and Furukawa has logged 366 days in space over his two flights.
[
*A thermal screenshot showing the successfully deployed four parachutes of
the Dragon Capsule as it makes its descent on March 12](Image credit: NASA)*
Throughout their mission, the Crew-7 members contributed to a host of science
and maintenance activities and technology demonstrations
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/crew-5-scientific-mission-on-iss,
including a number of ARISS amateur radio contacts. Moghbeli conducted one
spacewalk, joined by NASA astronaut Loral Oâ€ÖHara, replacing one of the 12
trundle bearing assemblies on the port solar alpha rotary joint, which
allows the arrays to track the Sun and generate electricity to power the
station.
The crew contributed to hundreds of experiments and technology
demonstrations
https://www.nasa.gov/missions/station/iss-research/nasas-spacex-crew-7-completes-scientific-mission-on-space-station/,
including the first study of human response to different spaceflight
durations, and an experiment growing food on the space station.
This was the third flight of the Dragon spacecraft, named Endurance. It
also previously supported the Crew-3 and Crew-5 missions. The spacecraft
will return to Florida for inspection and processing at SpaceXâ€Ös
refurbishing facility at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, where teams
will inspect the Dragon, analyze data on its performance, and process it
for its next flight.
The Crew-7 flight is part of NASAâ€Ös Commercial Crew Program
https://www.nasa.gov/exploration/commercial/crew/index.html and its
return to Earth follows on the heels of NASAâ€Ös SpaceX Crew-8 launch, which
docked to the station March 5, beginning another science expedition. That
crew consists of Matthew Dominick, KCØTOR, Michael Barratt, KD5MIJ,
Jeanette Epps, KF5QNU, and Alexander Grebenkin, RZ3DSE.
[ANS thanks NASA for the above information.]
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