The four members of the Crew-7 mission are set to dock to the International Space Station on Sunday. They'll spend six months on the orbiting outpost conducting science and other experiments.
The Falcon 9 booster carrying the crew to space flew for the first time. And, the first stage landed back at Cape Canaveral instead of on a drone ship at sea — sending a sonic boom across parts of Central Florida.
NASA and SpaceX Crew-7 members Russian cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Mission commander and NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa, greet the media as they arrive at the Kennedy Space Center on August 20, 2023 in Cape Canaveral, Fla.
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