Written by Samah Labib Friday, September 01, 2023 02:00 AM Astronauts leave SpaceX The four of the International Space Station (ISS) Crew-6 team on Saturday after four months of living and working in the orbiting laboratory.
Bringing home aboard the Crew Dragon capsule will be NASA astronauts Stephen Bowen and Warren Hoburg, Emirati astronaut Sultan Al Neyadi, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrei Vediaev.
The mission was the fourth spaceflight for Bowen, who participated in the space shuttle missions STS-126 in 2008, STS-132 in 2010, and STS-133 in 2011, and a first for Hoburgh, Neyadi, and Vidyaev.
After the arrival of the four crew members on Sunday, the number of crew aboard the International Space Station has increased to 11. That’s a lot of people for a facility that NASA says is the size of a six-bedroom house, although in the past it could have hosted up to 13 people. The usual crew size for the International Space Station is about six or seven.
Crew-6 members are currently finalizing delivery activities, which include completing a number of science experiments and transporting cargo back to the departing Crew Dragon, which has docked with the International Space Station since the arrival of the astronauts in March.
The six months that Al Neyadi spent aboard the International Space Station was the longest spaceflight by an Arab so far, and he also became the first Arab to walk in space. X sitewhich was called Twitter when it left Earth six months ago, keeping its followers on Earth up to date on its life in orbit.
