Not only citizens of the earth are going home, but astronauts will also be going home to return to Earth.
They are part of the SpaceX Crew-3 mission which consists of a crew of four astronauts, namely from the United States Space Agency (NASA), namely Thomas Marshburn, Kayla Barron, Raja Chari, and another Matthias Maurer from the European Space Agency (ESA).
As quoted from Space, Thursday (5/5/2022) the Dragon capsule had escaped from the International Space Station (ISS) on Thursday at 01.20 EDT.
The four space explorers are scheduled to land off the coast of Florida, USA, on Friday (6/5) at 12:43 EDT.
They have served for six months on the ISS. During that time, astronauts carried out hundreds of different scientific investigations. The results of the research will be followed up on Earth.
Speaking of the Crew-3 mission, the name marks the collaboration between SpaceX and NASA in launching a manned mission to the ISS for the third time.
The Crew-3 was the first space flight experienced by Barron, Chari, Maurer, and Marshburn who developed as commander of expedition 67.
Marshburn's return to Earth, the ISS control stick is handed over to Russian cosmonaut Oleg Artemyev. The assignment handover session took place last Wednesday (4/5).