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4 space station fliers return to Earth after record-setting 235-day mission (www.cbsnews.com)

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Strapped into the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule Endeavour, three NASA astronauts and a Russian cosmonaut returned to Earth early Friday, splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico to close out an extended 235-day expedition to the International Space Station.

After a high-speed re-entry above Central America and a steep descent to the Gulf, Crew 8 commander Matthew Dominick, co-pilot Michael Barratt, astronaut Jeanette Epps and cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin settled to a gentle, on-target splashdown south of Pensacola, Florida, at 3:29 a.m. EDT.

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[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 10 points 12 hours ago

A three hour tour. A three hour tour.

[-] HootinNHollerin@lemmy.world 9 points 11 hours ago

This is not the Boeing crew

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 4 points 11 hours ago

the article sure made it sound like it was.

"The crew originally expected to return to Earth in September. But the flight slipped into early October in the wake of a decision to delay the launch of their Crew 9 replacements because of problems with Boeing's Starliner crew ferry ship."

[-] RoidingOldMan@lemmy.world 7 points 9 hours ago

It's not though. They worded it confusingly on purpose. The two that are still stuck are named Williams and Wilmore. The 4 mentioned in this article have different names.

[-] HubertManne@moist.catsweat.com 5 points 9 hours ago

oh your right as its right in the next sentence which I had to read several times to get it to register:

"That freed up two seats aboard the Crew Dragon for Wilmore and Williams to use when they come home next February with Hague and Gorbunov."

so fuck they are still up there until febuary.

[-] Pancito@lemmy.world 9 points 14 hours ago

What's the record setting part here?

[-] LilDumpy@lemmy.world 12 points 13 hours ago

Number of days stranded

[-] lefty7283@lemmy.world 16 points 11 hours ago

The starliner astronauts are still up there (and will be until they return on the crew 9 capsule in February). This is the crew that went up before them returning to earth

[-] weew@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 hours ago

However, their mission did get extended because of Starliner. While Starliner was sitting on the ISS, it occupied the docking port, so the next crew (their relief crew, essentially) couldn't be sent up.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 5 points 14 hours ago

No idea. Not endurance.

https://www.nasa.gov/international-space-station/space-station-astronaut-record-holders/

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