NASA Astronauts Meir, Morgan, Crewmate Skripochka Return from Space Station
WASHINGTON, April 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan returned to Earth Friday, along with Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
- WASHINGTON, April 17, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA astronauts Jessica Meir and Andrew Morgan returned to Earth Friday, along with Soyuz Commander Oleg Skripochka of the Russian space agency Roscosmos.
- During her first spaceflight, Meir conducted the first three all-woman spacewalks with crewmate Christina Koch of NASA, totaling 21 hours and 44 minutes.
- Skripochka will board a Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center aircraft in Baikonur to return to his home in Star City, Russia.
- The crew members of Expedition 63 are scheduled to be aboard the station to welcome NASA astronauts Robert Behnken and Douglas Hurley ,the first astronauts to launch from American soil to the space station since 2011, on NASA's upcoming SpaceX Demo-2 flight test.