After four commercial crew members left early Thursday morning, expedition 67 crew members returned to their original team size on Friday. Seven international space station astronauts and astronauts will live and work together in space until the end of summer. The spacexcrew-3 mission officially ended at 12:43 a.m. EST on Friday when the Challenger manned spacecraft splashed off the coast of Tampa, Florida.
Nearly 24 hours ago, crew-3 commander Raja chary and pilot Tom Mashburn, as well as mission experts Keira Baron and Matthias Maurer, unlocked and disengaged from the front port of the harmony module in the Dragon spacecraft.
Crew-3 crew
After saying goodbye to crew-3 astronauts earlier Thursday, the four newest astronauts from the orbital laboratory (who arrived in the Dragon spacecraft liberty a week ago) closed the cabin door of the space station, went to sleep about two hours later and continued to rest for the rest of the day.
On Friday, NASA flight engineer Kjell Lindgren packed emergency equipment for xroots space botany research and inspected hydroponic hardware within a week of his second space flight. Samantha cristoforetti, a flight engineer of the European Space Agency, was also on her second mission. She spent a day maintaining the pipeline system in orbit.
Bob Haines and Jessica Watkins, who took part in the first space flight, once again cooperated in the Columbus Laboratory module to study how the central nervous system adapts to weightlessness. Both Heins and Watkins were selected as members of the 2017 astronaut candidates in August of the same year.
Oleg atmiev, the new commander of the space station, began his day and continued his week-long research on how to maximize the effectiveness of space exercise. Russian space agency flight engineer Sergei kosakov also participated in the research of space exercise, and then carried out the work of network equipment. Flight engineer Dennis matviev of the Russian space agency checked the systems in the rassvet and Zarya modules before carrying out the Russian orbit maintenance mission.