NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Splashdown: Helicopter Ride to Jacksonville, Florida

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-4 Splashdown: Helicopter Ride to Jacksonville, Florida

NASA astronaut Jessica Watkins helped out of helicopter in Jacksonville, Florida

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren helped out of helicopter in Jacksonville, Florida

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti helped out of helicopter in Jacksonville, Florida

NASA astronaut Robert Hines helped out of helicopter in Jacksonville, Florida

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren helped aboard helicopter on SpaceX recovery ship Megan

NASA astronaut Kjell Lindgren inside elevator on SpaceX recovery ship Megan

ESA astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti inside elevator on SpaceX recovery ship Megan

NASA astronaut Robert Hines inside elevator on SpaceX recovery ship Megan

NASA's SpaceX Crew-4 astronauts Jessica Watkins, Kjell Lindgren and Robert Hines, along with European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of Italy, are seen just a few hours after they landed in their SpaceX Crew Dragon Freedom spacecraft in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida, Friday, Oct. 14, 2022.

An international partnership of space agencies provides and operates the elements of the International Space Station (ISS). The principals are the space agencies of the United States, Russia, Europe, Japan, and Canada. The ISS has been the most politically complex space exploration program ever undertaken.

NASA’s Commercial Crew Program (CCP) works with the American aerospace industry to provide safe, reliable, and cost-effective transportation to and from the International Space Station on American-made rockets and spacecraft launching from American soil.

Credit: NASA/Bill Ingalls

Image Date: October 14, 2022

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