Four astronauts, who reached the International Space Center about five months ago to help Starlineer’s stranded test pilots, returned to Earth on Saturday. His SpaceX capsules, a day after leaving the laboratory circling, landed from the Southern California coast in the Pacific Ocean.
SpaceX Mission Control broadcast on the radio, “Welcome to the house.” NASA’s Annie McClane and Nicole Aars, Japan’s Takuya Onishi and Russia’s Kiril Peskov landed on the earth. They were sent to replace two NASA astronauts appointed for the failed performance of Starlineer in March.
Buch Wilmore and Sunita Williams were stranded at the space center for more than nine months instead of a week due to a malfunction in Starlineer. NASA ordered Boeing’s new crew capsule to return empty and transferred both to SpaceX.
This was SpaceX’s third mission to enter the Pacific region with astronauts, while this was the first campaign for a crew of the US space agency NASA in 50 years.
Allen Musk’s company started the introduction of astronauts earlier this year to the Pacific Ocean on the banks of California instead of landing astronauts in the Atlantic Ocean adjacent to Florida to reduce the risk of falling debris in populated areas. NASA’s astronauts last landed in the Pacific Ocean during the 1975 Apollo-Soys Mission.