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Title: NASA Crew-10 Astronauts Depart Space Station After Five-Month Mission

Link: https://science.slashdot.org/story/25/08/08/2...

NASA's Crew-10 mission has departed the International Space Station after 146
days, with astronauts Nichole Ayers, Anne McClain, Takuya Onishi, and Kirill
Peskov set to splash down off California's coast on Saturday morning. You can
watch a recording of the SpaceX Crew-10 undocking and departure on X. Reuters
reports: The four-person crew launched to the ISS on March 14 in a routine
mission that replaced the Crew-9 crew, which included NASA astronauts Butch
Wilmore and Suni Williams, the astronaut pair left on the station by Boeing's
Starliner capsule. Five months after the Starliner mission's conclusion,
Wilmore this week retired from NASA after a 25-year career in which he flew
four different spacecraft and logged a total of 464 days in space. Wilmore
was a key technical adviser to Boeing's Starliner program along with
Williams, who remains at the agency in its astronaut corps. [...] NASA said
they are returning to Earth with "important and time-sensitive research"
conducted in the microgravity environment of the ISS during the 146-day
mission. The astronauts had over 200 science experiments on their to-do list.

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