On Saturday morning, NASA’s Crew-10 astronauts parachuted back to Earth after a five-month journey at the International Space Station (ISS). Their SpaceX Dragon capsule splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast just a day after undocking from the orbiting lab.
“Welcome home,” Mission Control radioed as the capsule dropped under its three iconic orange-and-white parachutes. The crew included NASA pilots Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency veteran Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov.
The quartet lifted off in March to relieve the stuck test pilots aboard Boeing’s Starliner after a botched demo left that spacecraft stranded. Over roughly 150 days, Crew-10 supported key resupply missions, science experiments and maintenance tasks, marking a vital link in the ongoing rotation of crews to low Earth orbit.
Recovery teams were waiting in the Pacific to guide the astronauts through post-splashdown procedures before they head back to their respective space centers. The mission highlights the expanding role of commercial partners like SpaceX in keeping the ISS staffed and science flowing.
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NASA's Crew-10 astronauts return home from International Space Station
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