NASA SpaceX Crew-8 Splashdown off Florida Coast | International Space Station

NASA SpaceX Crew-8 Splashdown off Florida Coast | International Space Station

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia, left, NASA astronauts Michael Barratt, second from left, Matthew Dominick, second from right, and Jeanette Epps, right are seen inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN shortly after having landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Friday, Oct. 25, 2024.

NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Michael Barratt helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

NASA astronaut Jeanette Epps is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin is helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN

Support teams work around the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft shortly after it landed with NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia aboard in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, Friday, Oct. 25,2024.

After 235 days in space, SpaceX Dragon Endeavour and Crew-8 NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick and Michael Barratt, Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia returned to Earth and splashed down off the coast of Florida at 3:29 a.m. ET on Friday, October 25. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Dragon and Crew-8 to the orbiting laboratory on Sunday, March 3, 2024, at 10:53 p.m. ET from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

Expedition 72 Updates:

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/

Expedition 72 Crew

Station Commander: Suni Williams

Roscosmos (Russia): Alexey Ovchinin, Ivan Vagner, Aleksandr Gorbunov

NASA: Butch Wilmore, Don Pettit, Nick Hague

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

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math (STEM)

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

Release Date: Oct. 25, 2024

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