On February 9, 2024 at 13:30 UTC the US Crew Dragon “Freedom” (Axiom-3 mission) spacecraft splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Daytona, Florida. The spacecraft delivered from the ISS to Earth US astronaut Michael López-Alegría, Italian astronaut Walter Villadei, Turkish astronaut Alper Gezeravcı, Swedish astronaut Marcus Wandt. They spent in space 21 days, 15 hours and 40 minutes. It was the first all-European commercial astronaut mission and Axiom Space’s third crewed mission to the ISS. 7 other ISS crew members – Oleg Kononenko, Nikolai Chub, Loral O'Hara, Jasmin Moghbeli, Andreas Mogensen, Satoshi Furukawa and Konstantin Borisov remained in orbit aboard the International Space Station as Expedition 70 crew members. Attachments: |