Four astronauts have returned home from a six-month stay on the International Space Station, making a splashdown landing aboard their SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule off the coast of Florida on Monday.
The astronauts, members of the Crew-6 Dragon mission run jointly by NASA and SpaceX, departed the space station on Sunday.
The crew will carry out science experiments including collecting samples during a spacewalk to determine whether the station releases microorganisms through its life-support system vents.
The Crew spent six months aboard the International Space Station since last March. It arrived at the space station on August 27, when the Crew Dragon vehicle was launched from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
Source: Qatar News Agency