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Crew-5 successfully splashes down off Florida coast after mission to ISS

The SpaceX and NASA Crew-5 is back on earth after successfully splashing down after a nearly 6-month long science mission. The capsule safely kissed the surface of the Gulf of Mexico after all parachutes deployed off of the coast of Tampa. The U.S.-Russian-Japanese crew spent five months at the International Space Station, arriving last October. Besides dodging space junk, the astronauts had to deal with a pair of leaking Russian capsules docked to the orbiting outpost and the urgent delivery of a replacement craft for the station’s other crew members. Led by NASA’s Nicole Mann, the first Native American woman to fly in space, the astronauts checked out of the station early Saturday morning. Less than 19 hours later, their Dragon capsule was bobbing in the sea as they awaited pickup. At 10:30 p.m. NASA will have a return to earth media teleconference from NASA’s Johnson Space Center in Houston with: Steve Stich, Manager, Commercial Crew Program, NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida Joel Montalbano, Manager, International Space Station, NASA Johnson Sarah Walker, Director, Dragon Mission Management, SpaceX Hiroshi Sasaki, Vice President, JAXA