NASA's Space to Ground: Departure of Crew-7 | Week of March 15, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground: Departure of Crew-7 | Week of March 15, 2024

NASA's Space to Ground is your weekly update on what's happening aboard the International Space Station. The International Space Station’s population is back down to seven as Monday saw the departure of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7. Astronauts Jasmin Moghbeli of NASA, Andreas Mogensen of European Space Agency (ESA), Satoshi Furukawa of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov of Roscosmos of Russia undocked from the forward-facing port of the Harmony module at 11:20 a.m. EDT Monday, March 11, 2024, before splashing down off the coast of Florida at 5:47am Tuesday, March 12. The quartet’s return to Earth marks the end of its six-month microgravity research mission.

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Expedition 70 Crew

Station Commander: Oleg Kononenko (Russia)

Roscosmos (Russia): Nikolai Chub, Alexander Grebenkin (Russia)

NASA: Loral O'Hara, Matthew Dominik, Mike Barrett, Jeanette Epps

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.

Learn more about the important research being operated on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/iss-science 

For more information about STEM on Station:

https://www.nasa.gov/stemonstation

Video Credit: NASA's Johnson Space Center (JSC)

Duration: 4 minutes

Release Date: March 15, 2024

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