NASA's Giant New Moon Rocket Is Finally on Launch Pad
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Crew-11 disembarked the Dragon Endeavour at about 01:30 local time (09:30 GMT) after a nearly 11 hour journey back to Earth.
After more than five months in space, four astronauts on a mission known as Crew-11 are about to cut their mission short and return to Earth. Since the beginning of August, the crew of the joint NASA and SpaceX mission have lived and worked at the International Space Station,
An astronaut in need of medical care is on the way back to Earth. The ailing astronaut departed the International Space Station with three crewmates on Wednesday.
A SpaceX ship recovered the spacecraft from the ocean and at around 1:30 a.m. and welcomed aboard NASA astronauts Zena Cardman and Mike Fincke, plus Kimiya Yui of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency and Oleg Platonov of Roscosmos, the Russian space agency.
The research has implications for NASA’s goals to build a base on the moon and eventually conduct crewed missions to Mars.