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After spending 199 days in characteristic, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members will focus on their science mission aboard the World Space Location in the course of a files convention at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, March 25, at the company’s Johnson Space Center in Houston.
NASA astronaut Jasmin MoghbeliESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas MogensenJAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawaand Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, splashing down at 5:47 a.m., March 12, off the hover of Pensacola, Florida, sooner than flying abet to Houston. Crew will resolution media questions about their mission aboard the characteristic location and their return to Earth.
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Media are invited to abet in-particular person or nearly. Media must RSVP to the Johnson newsroom no later than 12:30 p.m. March 25 at [email protected] or 281-483-5111. Media must dial-in to the data convention by 2 p.m. the day of the match to query a quiz. Questions furthermore could maybe nicely be submitted on social media the employ of #AskNASA. A reproduction of NASA’s media accreditation policy is online.
The crew spent six-and-a-half months in characteristic, with 197 days total aboard the characteristic location. Within the course of the mission, Moghbeli finished a spacewalk, a necessary in her occupation, alongside NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara. It was the principle spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov, and the 2d for Furukawa and Mogensen.
The crew lived and labored aboard the location since Aug. 26, 2023. Within the course of the mission, crew contributed to so much of of experiments and technology demonstrations, at the side of finding out plant immune characteristic in microgravity, testing materials in the characteristic atmosphere, and looking at thunderstorms to realise the outcomes of lightning and electrical instruct on Earth’s climate and atmosphere. These experiments are serving to to prepare for exploration previous low Earth orbit and to benefit existence on Earth.
They spent five days with the newly arrived crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, who docked to the location on March 5, and conducted an instantaneous handover introducing three first-time flyers to the characteristic location, discussing ongoing tasks and machine statuses.
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Josh Finch / Claire O’Shea
Headquarters, Washington
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Chelsey Ballarte
Johnson Space Center, Houston
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