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(From left) The Axiom-4 crew, Pilot Shubhanshu Shukla of India, Mission Specialist Tibor Kapu of Hungary, Commander Peggy Whitson of the US, and Mission Specialist Slawosz Uznanski-Wisniewski of Poland, react as they greet their family members before their mission to the International Space Station, in Cape Canaveral, Florida, US, June 24, 2025. — Reuters
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) retired private astronaut Pigy Whitson returned to the Earth in the Pacific on Tuesday morning, ending the fifth journey of the International Space Station ISS).
He was accompanied by three staff from India, Poland and Hungary, who were returning to the laboratory, who were returning from the first mission of their nations.
The four -member staff, a Space X staff, was riding on the dragon capsule, parachutes in calm waters off the coast of southern California, which was around PDT (0930 GMT) at around 2:30 pm. His return marked the completion of a 22 -hour descent from orbit, which is closed by firearms in the Earth’s environment.
The spacecraft appears like a “mechanical alka”, which withdraws external temperatures, which increases 3.500 degrees Fahrenheit (1,927 degrees Celsius) due to the friction heating system. Despite the intense heat, the astronaut’s special flight suit made sure that they were cool inside the cabin.
Return Flight concludes the fourth ISS mission organized by the Startup Exam Space, located in Texas, in partnership with Space X, near Los Angeles.
The return was taken directly by the Joint Space XMOM Webcast.
Two sets of parachutes, which are seen through the dark and light fog with infrared cameras, slowed down the last descent of the capsule before the Splash Dowan from San Diego to about 15 miles per hour (24 km per hour).
The Oxyum 4 staff was led by 65 -year -old Whiten, who retired after his retirement from NASA in 2018, which included becoming the first female chief astronaut of the US space agency and the first woman of the command of the ISS campaign.
He radioed to overcome the mission that moments of staff returning moments were “happy to return”. The ship was immediately dispatched to secure the capsule and hoist it from the sea deck.
The staff members were to remove the capsule one by one and the recovery vessel had to go through a medical checkup before going to their coast, which is expected to take about an hour.
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Now for the Human Space Light Director Exxon, Whiten has logged in to NASA’s three previous missions, a US record, an American record, 695 days into space, which is the fourth flight to orbit as the commander of the Oxyum -2 staff in 2023 and its ISS -4 -Fifth -4 -Fifth Mission.
Axis -4 staff were 39 -year -old Shobhansho Shukla, Poland’s 41 -year -old Slosses Oznsinksky Vicinski and 33 -year -old Hungary’s Tabor Kapo.
They returned with a cargo of science patterns from more than 60 micrograte experiments made during their 18 -day visit to their 18 -day visit and caused researchers to ship researchers on Earth for final analysis.
For India, Poland and Hungary, this launch has been the first human spacelight and first mission in each country over 40 years to send astronauts to ISS from their government’s respective space programs.
The Indian Air Force Pilot Shukla’s participation has been seen by the Indian Space Program as the foremost of the first crew mission of the Giganan orbit spacecraft, which is planned for 2027.
Ozansky-Wiseniuski is a Polish astronaut assigned to the European Space Agency, while Kapo is part of his country’s Hungarian orbit (Hanor) program, though he is not the first person in the Hungarian descent riding at the space station.
Billionaire Charles Charles Semoni, a software designer born in Hungary, who became a US citizen in 1982, visited ISS twice in 2007 and 2009, withholding riders of riders at the Russian Swiss capsule in 2007 and 2009.
But like many wealthy people from different countries who have paid their way to Joyaroids from space, Simoni was not flying from his homeland or any government.
The new commissioned capsule, which was flown by its staff called “Grace”, was launched on June 25 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canvarlal, Florida, which became the fifth vehicle in the Dragon fleet of SpaceX staff.
The AX-4 team reached the ISS on June 26, welcoming seven occupants of the latest staff at the station through seven US astronauts, a Japanese staff and three Russian cosmons. The two staff separated from the company once again at Monday when staff’s Dragon Grace refused to start his journey home.
Exxum -4 also marked the 18th staff flight through Space X from 2020, when Musk’s rocket company started a new NASA era by providing US astronauts to the US soil after the end of the space shuttle program nine years ago.
For a 9 -year project, which is a joint NASA ISS program manager, the mission has developed its business to put the lands under the land of private companies and foreign governments into a low ground.
Exam is also one of a handful of companies that develops a trading space station with its own aimed to change ISS, which NASA expects to retire around 2030.
