WASHINGTON, March 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ — After spending 199 days in house, NASA’s SpaceX Crew-7 crew members will focus on their science mission aboard the Worldwide House Station throughout a information convention at 2:30 p.m. EDT Monday, March 25, on the company’s Johnson House Heart in Houston.
NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European House Company) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Company) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov returned to Earth aboard a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, splashing down at 5:47 a.m., March 12, off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, earlier than flying again to Houston. Crew will reply media questions on their mission aboard the house station and their return to Earth.
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Media are invited to attend in-person or just about. Media should RSVP to the Johnson newsroom no later than 12:30 p.m. March 25 at [email protected] or 281-483-5111. Media ought to dial-in to the information convention by 2 p.m. the day of the occasion to ask a query. Questions additionally could also be submitted on social media utilizing #AskNASA. A duplicate of NASA’s media accreditation coverage is on-line.
The crew spent six-and-a-half months in house, with 197 days whole aboard the house station. Through the mission, Moghbeli accomplished a spacewalk, a primary in her profession, alongside NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara. It was the primary spaceflight for Moghbeli and Borisov, and the second for Furukawa and Mogensen.
The crew lived and labored aboard the station since Aug. 26, 2023. Throughout the mission, crew contributed to a whole lot of experiments and know-how demonstrations, together with finding out plant immune operate in microgravity, testing supplies within the house atmosphere, and observing thunderstorms to know the consequences of lightning and electrical exercise on Earth’s local weather and ambiance. These experiments are serving to to arrange for exploration past low Earth orbit and to learn life on Earth.
They spent 5 days with the newly arrived crew of NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 mission, who docked to the station on March 5, and performed a direct handover introducing three first-time flyers to the house station, discussing ongoing duties and system statuses.
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