Washington DC [US], August 10: Four astronauts returned to Earth on Satu day after spending about five months aboard theInternational Space Station (ISS). Their capsule parachuted down into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California,live footage from NASA showed. The Dragon capsule, built by tech entrepreneur Elon Musk's company SpaceX, undocked from the space outpost on Friday for a nearly 18-hour journey home. Crew 10, consisting of NASA astronauts Anne McClain and Nichole Ayers, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Kirill Peskov, had been aboard the station since March, orbiting about 400 kilometres above Earth.
Source: Qatar Tribune
