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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Astronauts Return to Earth

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-3 Astronauts Return to Earth
09 May 2022
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The world's largest space agency, NASA's Crew-3 mission has returned safely to Earth. All the passengers of the mission have returned safely to Earth in the spacecraft of Elon Musk's company SpaceX

They have been brought back in the SpaceX Dragon Endurance craft. This mission was led by Raja Chari of Indian origin along with three people from America and one passenger from Germany were included in the crew. After takeoff from the International Space Station, they returned to Earth in a little more than 23 hours. 

In this mission, Raja Chari, Tom Marshburn and Kayla Barron of NASA, and Mattias Maurer from the European Space Agency have returned to Earth. After their arrival, there are now 7 astronauts left on the International Space Station (ISS). 

These include three Americans, three Russians, and one passenger from Italy. In the Crew-3 mission, Raja Chari of NASA, along with Kayla Barron, Tom Marshburn, and Matthias Maurer of the European Space Agency (ESA), landed with the help of a parachute at 12:43 AM in the Gulf of Mexico in Florida. The crew spent 177 days in space on the SpaceX Dragon Endurance Craft.