NASA astronaut Tracy C. Dyson, together with Roscosmos cosmonauts Oleg Kononenko and Nikolai Chub, safely returned to Earth on September 23, following a six-month analysis mission aboard the Worldwide House Station (ISS). The trio departed the station aboard the Soyuz MS-25 spacecraft at 2:06 pm IST, touchdown safely southeast of Dzhezkazgan, Kazakhstan, at 5:29 pm IST in a parachute-assisted touchdown.
Throughout her mission, NASA mentioned, Dyson engaged in a number of groundbreaking scientific experiments, together with the operation of a 3D bioprinter used to print cardiac tissue samples. This modern analysis goals to advance expertise for creating substitute organs and tissues for transplants on Earth.
Dyson additionally contributed to the crystallisation of mannequin proteins, a part of an experiment that might improve pharmaceutical manufacturing, and took part in a student-designed software program program to manage the station’s free-flying robots — an initiative meant to encourage the following era of area innovators.
NASA posted a video of Dyson rising from the spacecraft after it landed in Kazakhstan.
Astronaut Tracy Dyson and her crewmates are safely house on Earth after in the present day’s Soyuz touchdown at 7:59am ET (1159 UTC). Dyson has accomplished a six-month analysis mission on the @Space_Station, her third spaceflight: https://t.co/6ZPnqnAGvz pic.twitter.com/S3T7FHc2Z9
— NASA (@NASA) September 23, 2024
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Tracy C. Dyson Spent 6 Months Aboard ISS
Dyson launched on March 23, arriving on the ISS two days later with Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Novitskiy and spaceflight participant Marina Vasilevskaya of Belarus.
Novitskiy and Vasilevskaya spent 12 days aboard the station earlier than returning to Earth on April 6 with NASA astronaut Loral O’Hara.
Dyson’s time in area spanned 184 days, throughout which she accomplished 2,944 orbits of Earth and travelled over 78 million miles. She additionally carried out a 31-minute spacewalk, including to her profession whole of 23 hours, 20 minutes throughout 4 spacewalks.
For Roscosmos cosmonauts Kononenko and Chub, the touchdown marked the tip of a 374-day mission. Their journey encompassed 5,984 orbits of Earth, protecting 158.6 million miles. Kononenko, on his fifth spaceflight, now holds the file for probably the most cumulative time spent in area, with 1,111 days in orbit, in line with NASA.
Chub accomplished his first spaceflight.
After touchdown, the crew will bear routine medical evaluations earlier than heading to the restoration staging metropolis of Karaganda, Kazakhstan, NASA mentioned, including that Dyson will then return to NASA’s Johnson House Heart in Houston, marking the tip of her third spaceflight.
Earlier than departing, Kononenko handed over the command of the Worldwide House Station to Sunita Williams, whose eight-day mission bought prolonged for eight months after the Boeing spacecraft that took her to the area station developed technical points and needed to be introduced again uncrewed.