Moist and windy climate throughout Florida delayed their homecoming. SpaceX and Nasa lastly gave the all-clear on Friday, and the three People and one Italian departed the Worldwide Area Station, their residence since April.
The capsule parachuted into the ocean, simply off Jacksonville, Florida, about 5 hours after it left the house station. It carried Nasa astronauts Kjell Lindgren, Bob Hines and Jessica Watkins, the primary Black lady to finish a long-term spaceflight, and the European Area Company’s Samantha Cristoforetti. SpaceX delivered their replacements final week.
Earlier than testing, the astronauts stated they could not wait to have a chilly drink with ice, eat some pizza and ice cream, take a bathe, experience nature and, after all, reunite with their households. Nasa deliberate to hustle them to Houston as soon as they had been off SpaceX’s restoration ship and again on stable floor.
“Getting the primary few hugs once we get again is admittedly going to be superior,” Hines informed reporters earlier within the week.
Remaining aboard the house station are three People, three Russians and one Japanese.