On August 10, four astronauts from the United States, Japan, and Russia successfully returned to Earth after landing in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California aboard a SpaceX spacecraft.
NASA astronauts Anna McClain and Nicole Ayers, Japan’s Takuya Onishi, and Russia’s Kirill Peskov traveled to the International Space Station in March to replace two American astronauts who had left aboard Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft after a technical problem forced them to stay in space for more than five months instead of the planned one week.
NASA had decided to return the Starliner without a crew and instead send a new team via SpaceX.
This was the first time in 50 years that NASA astronauts had landed in the Pacific Ocean.
