The Expedition 69 crew is expected to split up soon when four flight engineers return to Earth aboard the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft. Meanwhile, all crew members on the International Space Station (ISS) spent Friday keeping up their orbital research and maintenance tasks. Unfavorable weat
Endeavour, commanded by NASA astronaut Stephen Bowen and piloted by NASA astronaut Woody Hoburg, is targeted to splash down in the waters off Florida’s coast at 12:07 a.m. on Monday. Flanking the NASA duo during the 19-hour ride back to Earth will be UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi andcosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev. The quartet will be completing a six-month space research mission that began with a launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on March 2.
From left, are Expedition 69 Flight Engineers Woody Hoburg, Jasmin Moghbeli, and Frank Rubio, all from from NASA, posing for a portrait aboard the International Space Station. The three astronauts were selected as part NASA’s 22nd group of astronauts, nicknamed “The Turtles”, in June of 2017.
Moghbeli transferred research samples to science freezers that will be returned to Earth inside the Endeavour spacecraft with the departing crewmates. Mogensen set up a pair of Kubik research incubators that support studies of seeds, cells, and small mammals inside the Columbus laboratory module. Furukawa worked in the Kibo laboratory module removing a
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