A SpaceX Crew Dragon carrying a four-man crew headed home in the final chapter of a long-duration station stay.
Two NASA astronauts, a Russian cosmonaut and a United Arab Emirates astronaut undocked from the International Space Station Sunday and headed for an overnight splashdown off Florida's East Coast early Monday to wrap up a six-month stay in orbit.
"Thank you very much," Bowen replied."It's been a real pleasure and an honor to be here for this expedition. We're coming up on 23 years of continuous occupation of the International Space Station, which is absolutely amazing. Just a real privilege to be a part of it." Before departing the space station, Bowen, a former submariner, said he most looked forward to"the nice ocean air and peaceful calm seas. That'll be really nice to get back to."
Left behind in orbit were three Soyuz crew members -- station commander Sergey Prokopyev, Dmitri Petelin and NASA astronaut Frank Rubio -- and four Crew Dragon fliersto replace Bowen and company: Crew-7 commander Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japanese astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.
Prokopyev, Petelin and Rubio will undock and return to Earth 12 days later. In so doing, Rubio will set a new U.S. record for the longest single spaceflight by an American astronaut., the Crew-6 fliers will have spent 185 days and 22 hours off planet, circling the globe 2,976 times while traveling 78.9 million miles through space. At splashdown, Bowen, the only space veteran on the crew, will have logged 227 days in space across four missions.
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