Another manned space mission has safely come to an end.
NASA’s SpaceX Crew-12—NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Jack Hathaway, European Space Agency astronaut Sophie Adenot, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev—splashed down in the Pacific Ocean off Los Angeles just after 11:30 a.m. ET on Oct. 8.
The four explorers spent 237 days in space, 235 of which were on the International Space Station, to take part in the 74th and 75th live-aboard “Expedition” missions dedicated to advancing scientific discoveries to better life on Earth and in space, as well as maintain the orbital outpost and continue a 25-year streak of continuous human presence beyond Earth….