NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 Flight Day 3 Highlights

On Sunday, September 3, NASA astronauts Steve Bowen and Woody Hoburg, along with UAE astronaut Sultan Alneyadi and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, initiated their journey back to Earth from the International Space Station. This return trip began with the closure of the hatch to the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft, named Endeavour, followed by undocking procedures. After a transit lasting nearly 16 hours, Bowen, Hoburg, Alneyadi, and Fedyaev safely returned to Earth, touching down with the assistance of parachutes off the coast of Florida on Monday, September 4.

The mission of NASA's SpaceX Crew-6 spanned approximately six months, during which the crew lived and worked aboard the microgravity laboratory. Their mission aimed to advance scientific knowledge and showcase new technologies that will be crucial for future human and robotic exploration missions, ultimately contributing to NASA's Artemis program.