On Monday morning, a group of four astronauts who had been on the International Space Station (ISS) for six months successfully returned to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft.
Crew-6, Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s sixth manned operational mission to the ISS, is part of NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The initiative aims to keep the ISS equipped with spacecraft built and operated by companies.
The Crew-7 crew has already arrived at the Space Station.
Although Crew-6 has already arrived on Earth, the ISS has not been left "uninhabited." A week before their return to the planet, the four members of Crew-6 welcomed Crew-7, the new crew that will replace them aboard the space station.
There are currently seven people on the ISS, including three other crew members from the Russian Soyuz mission. This mission spent a year in orbit and is scheduled to return to Earth at the end of September.
The International Space Station (ISS) was built between 1998 and 2011 through the efforts of five space agencies: the United States' NASA, Europe's ESA, Canada's CSA, Japan's JAXA and Russia's Roscosmos. Since its development and creation, the ownership and use rights of the ISS have been established through intergovernmental agreements.
The ISS, the largest modular space station in low-Earth orbit, is a research laboratory for microgravity and the space environment, staffed by professionals in the fields of astrobiology, astronomy, meteorology, physics and others.
Crew 6 consisted of NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Woody Hoburg, Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev and Sultan Alneyadi of the United Arab Emirates. Crew members have been living and working in space since March.
Crew-7 also has a multinational crew, consisting of a NASA astronaut, a Japanese astronaut, a Danish astronaut from the European Space Agency and a Russian cosmonaut.
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