NASA’s SpaceX Crew 8 Earth Return: Flight Highlights | International Space Station

NASA’s SpaceX Crew 8 Earth Return: Flight Highlights | International Space Station

NASA astronauts Matt Dominick, Mike Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin of Russia returned to Earth for a parachute-assisted splashdown off the coast of Florida at 3:29 a.m. EDT on Friday, October 25, completing their seven-month mission living and working aboard the microgravity laboratory to advance scientific knowledge and demonstrate new technologies for future human and robotic exploration flights as part of NASA’s exploration approach, including lunar missions through NASA’s Artemis program.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched Dragon and Crew-8 to the orbiting laboratory on Sunday, March 3, 2024 from Launch Complex 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.

Video Credit: National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)

Duration: 20 minutes

Release Date: Oct. 25, 2024

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