The crew members have been on the International Space Station since October 6.
The capsule parachuted into waters off the coast of Tampa just after 9 p.m. EST . It had onboard two NASA astronauts, a Japanese astronaut, and one Russian cosmonaut.
The descent was a roughly nine-hour flight from the orbital research lab after being in the ISS for about five months. The Crew-5 team took off from Florida on October 6 to undertake routine science aboard the station.cosmonaut Anna Kikina, 38, who became the first Russian to fly on an American spacecraft in 20 years, and NASA flight commander Nicole Aunapu Mann, 45, the first Native American woman sent into orbit.
NASA pilot Josh Cassada, 49, and Japanese astronaut Koichi Wakata, 59, were also on the mission, but they had four previous missions under their belt.The Crew Dragon spacecraft, a circular pod designed to launch atop SpaceX's Falcon 9 rockets, undocked from the space station early on Saturday morning and re-entered Earth's atmosphere around 8:11 p.m. EST . On its trip, it withstood frictional heat that sent temperatures outside the capsule rising to 3,500 degrees Fahrenheit .
The mission marked SpaceX's sixth crewed flight for NASA since its Crew Dragon spacecraft first flew humans in May 2020. SpaceX has the notable distinction of restoring crewed launches from American soil after nearly a decade of U.S. dependence on Russia's Soyuz program for space station flights.to the ISS on a Russian Soyuz rocket since Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24. Since then, Kikina has been the first Russian to launch into space from U.S. soil.
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