SpaceX brings back four astronauts from International Space Station
發佈日期: 2025-08-10 21:32
TVB News
Four astronauts returned to Earth on Saturday after a mission to the International Space Station five months ago to relieve the stuck test pilots of Boeing's Starliner.
Elon Musk's SpaceX capsule parachuted into the Pacific off the Southern California coast a day after departing the orbiting space station.
Splashing down were NASA's Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan's Takuya Onishi and Russia's Kirill Peskov.
They launched in March as replacements for the two NASA astronauts assigned to Starliner's botched demo.
Starliner malfunctions kept Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams at the space station for more than nine months instead of a week.
Boeing's Starliner then returned to Earth empty as NASA switched the pair to SpaceX, but it took nine months after several delays.
It was SpaceX's third Pacific splashdown with people on board, but the first for a NASA crew in 50 years.
