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NASA’s Crew-8 mission members return to Earth on SpaceX capsule


Three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut splashed down off the Florida coast early Friday, capping a nearly eight-month science and research mission to the International Space Station.

The crew included three NASA astronauts: commander Matthew Dominick, pilot Michael Barratt, and mission specialist Jeanette Epps. 3, 2024 and spent more than seven months at the space station conducting scientific research, including on the shift of body fluids during spaceflight and how UV radiation and weightlessness affect plant growth. in September, will bring back the NASA astronauts left by Starliner, Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, at the completion of their mission which is set to end in Feb. 2025.

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