By Marisa Laudadio
4:00pm PDT, Mar 15, 2024
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They're back! After spending 199 days in space, NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 contingent of four astronauts have returned to Earth, splashing down off the coast of Florida on March 12, 2024, after completing the agency's seventh commercial crew rotation mission to the International Space Station.
Join us as we take a look at the best photos from their return and their original spaceflight last year…
NASA shared this photo showing support teams working around the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft shortly after it landed — with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa inside — in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on March 12, 2024. Moghbeli, Borisov, Mogensen and Furukawa returned to Earth after nearly six months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA shared this photo of Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa inside the SpaceX Dragon Endeavour spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN shortly after landing in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on March 12, 2024.
Moghbeli, Mogensen, Furukawa and Borisov returned to Earth after nearly six months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA released this photo of NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli being helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after she, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on March 12, 2024.
Moghbeli, Borisov, Mogensen and Furukawa returned to Earth after nearly six months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA released this photo of Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov being helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after he, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on March 12, 2024.
Moghbeli, Borisov, Mogensen and Furukawa returned to Earth after nearly six months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA released this photo of Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa being helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after he, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on March 12, 2024.
Moghbeli, Borisov, Mogensen and Furukawa returned to Earth after nearly six months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station.
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NASA released this photo of European Space Agency astronaut Andreas Mogensen being helped out of the SpaceX Dragon Endurance spacecraft onboard the SpaceX recovery ship MEGAN after he, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency astronaut Satoshi Furukawa landed in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Pensacola, Florida, on March 12, 2024.
Moghbeli, Borisov, Mogensen and Furukawa returned to Earth after nearly six months in space as part of Expedition 70 aboard the International Space Station.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the company's Dragon spacecraft was launched on NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 mission to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov on board, from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on Aug. 26, 2023.
This was the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the ISS as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
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Flames fire from a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the Crew-7 Dragon capsule as it lifts off from Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023. NASA's Crew-7 mission headed to the International Space Station (ISS) with NASA astronaut and Mission Commander Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA astronaut and Pilot Andreas Mogensen along with JAXA astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov as mission specialists.
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NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, NASA Deputy Administrator Pam Melroy and Vanessa Wyche, director of NASA's Johnson Space Center, waved as NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov departed the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building — in Teslas — for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-7 mission launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023.
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NASA's SpaceX Crew-7 members — Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa — walked out from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023, on their way to their launch, which began their six-month mission on the International Space Station.
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NASA-SpaceX Crew-7 member Jasmin Moghbeli — a NASA astronaut — smiled after walking out from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023, ahead of her launch to the International Space Station for a six-month mission.
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Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, and JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa — wearing SpaceX spacesuits — prepared to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-7 mission launch at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023. It marked the seventh crew rotation mission of the SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket to the International Space Station as part of the agency's Commercial Crew Program.
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NASA-SpaceX Crew-7 member Konstantin Borisov — a cosmonaut from Russia's Roscosmos agency — waved after walking out from the Neil Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023, ahead of his launch to the International Space Station for a six-month mission.
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NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, JAXA (Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov — wearing SpaceX spacesuits — prepared to depart the Neil A. Armstrong Operations and Checkout Building for Launch Complex 39A to board the SpaceX Dragon spacecraft for the Crew-7 mission launch at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023.
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Photographers atop NASA's Vehicle Assembly Building got the angle as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with Crew-7 Dragon capsule lifted off from Launchpad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023. NASA's Crew-7 mission headed to the International Space Station with NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov.
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The SpaceX Crew-7 mission lifted off on a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Aug. 26, 2023. It was was carrying NASA astronaut Jasmin Moghbeli, ESA (European Space Agency) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) astronaut Satoshi Furukawa and Roscosmos cosmonaut Konstantin Borisov to the International Space Station for a six-month mission.
